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ETRIEVER WEEKLY

''Evm tlu best Jit'W.papers have IUVt.'r !tamed bow to bandll public figures wbo lit UlitlJ a straight foce. ''- Bmjamin C. Bradkr Jr. _.::__ __ Volume 37, Number 27 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250

News .......... page 1 UHS offers hope for cigarette smok­ers, and phone solicitors harass students.

Opinion ..... page 11 Mourning our recognition of Earth Day,three cheers for SEB, and letters to the editor.

Features ..... page 18 Paul Chan opens eyes and the Jazz Ensemble tears shit up.

Sports ........ page 28 Tennis squads bat­tle it out for confer­ence titles and women~ lacrosse climbs to the top

Also check out: college news ........ page 2 wotid news. ......... page 3 classifieds. ............ page 35

four da forecast

Tuesday: partly cloudy. High of 75, low of 4'[

Wednesday: partly cloudy. High of 69. low of S t

Thursday: isolat8d 1~onns. H1gh of 75, low of 53.

Friday: mostly cloudy. High of 74, lowofSO

Date Set for Shockley ln1peach-

JOE HOWLEY Rerril!\.•er Weekly Editonal Staff

SGA President Philip Shockley will face impeachment charges before the Senate on May 12 in a closed session. Evidence againSI him has been rei~. as required by SGA by laws, as stu­dent !-kepticism of the impeach­ment rises.

May 12 IS the only day the trial can be held and is the la~t Senate meeting of the semester. Rocking the RAC: Third Eye Blind ends Quadmania on a high note.

Evidence assembled by the pro:.ccution bas been made public. ru. required by SGA bylaws.

The trial will be held in an Ex.ccutive Session of the Senate. According to Speaker Dom Cirincione. this excludes all non­senators. "All those without voting or speaking rights in the SGA Senate will not be allowed to be present," Cirincione said.

Governor Ehrlich Visits UMBC

Cirincione explained that the Executive Session is mandated by Robert's Rules of Order (10th ed.), the parliamentary guidelines that govern SGA proceedmgs.

The impeachment legislation. passed by the House of

see TRIAL. page 10

JOE HOWLEY Rerrie1·er Weekly Staff

Governor Robert Ehrlich visited UMBC recently to show his support for higher educauon and to congratulate SGA President Philip Shockley on his selection as Student Regent of Maryland.

Along with several other local politicians including Delegate Jim Malone (D-12A).

John \'llllu>n I Rctne¥C!J Weekly Stall

Take back the night: Students rally against sexual vrolence.

Ehrlich met with Shockley and University President Freeman Hrabowski before speaking in lhe Commons. Ehrlich arrived at the podjum in front of the bookstore to a standing ovation from the assembled students and faculty.

Many have been skeptical of Ehrlich. whose state budget calls for sweeping cuts from the education system. A mid-year tuition increase this year did lit-

lie to raise students' confidence in tbe budget s ituation.

In introducing Ehrlich, however, Hrabowski attempted to contradict the image of Ehrlich as insensitive to stu­dents' plights. "He believes in higher education,'' Hrabowski said of Ehrlich. "He has been very supporuve, more so than many of you believe.''

Ehrlich. a Republican,

see ERLICH. page 5

Students, Faculty March For an End to Sexual Violence

R. ERIC THOMAS Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff

Bracing wmds and raptdly dropping temperatures did litUe to deter dozens of UMBC students, facult} and staff from making their voices heard in a march across campus. Tuesday's "Take Back the Nighl" march and rally were the second of their kind at UMBC. brought members of the community together ro ratsc a\\ aren6s about ~exuaJ assault and \'lokncc again:<.t \\omen.

Nationwide statistics ..,how that one in four women on a col·

Lege campus vriiJ be the victim of sexual assault and that etght out of I 0 victims know their assailant. Still, organizers and marchers agreed that ignorance prevails with regard to sexual assault and thai lack of knowledge makes for an unsafe campus. Harriet Smith. a student who participated m the march and also <~at on the Sexual Assault Awareness Month plan­rung commiucc, sLated, "I don' t think that a lot of people knov. that [sexual ,lssault on college campusesJ ts n problem. I don't think people know how much sex-

see THE MARCH. page 3

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Man Shoot'i U-Md. Sh1drnt. Kills Self

(Washmgton Post) A S1lverSpnng man shot .md senously wuundcd ,, fcm.uc '>lll·

dent in n Umvers1ty ol 1\lruyland parkmg garage )CStcn!ay afternoon before l.Ital!y .-.hoounr hnnsclf in the head authorities ~d.

Prince C'reorge's Coumy police 11lcnti· lied the man a~ Ki Soong Kim. 21. of the 3100 block of Birchuce Lane in Stiver Spnn:;. a George Wa-.hmgton Univt:ISllY student.

~k· vr.ts pronounced dead at Prince Gcorxc\ Jilo.,piull Center, :;cvcral hour.; alter the 12.45 p.m • .:.huotings. ~a1d Capt. Andy Elli~ a police ~pokcsman.

'lbc woman, identified only a' a 20-ycar-oltl ~tudcnt from Burtonsville who was studying at the College Park campus. reniaincd in grave condition at Washington Hospital Center with a gun.<;hol wound to the forehead.

The two had dated, police sources said. Ellis said the man. who campus offi­

cials said Ia~ night wa..<> not aftilialcd with the University of Maryland. drove his black Volkswagen Jetta onto the third level of Parking Lot 6. adjacent to the univer.;ity's new $107 million Comcast Center bac;ket· ball arena. and parked it behind the woman· s white Honda Civic. blocking her in. He said the man walked up to the car, fired a shot at the woman and then turned the semiauto­matic handgun on hitnself.

'There may have been some sort of conversation between the two before the shooting," Ellis said. "It does not appear to

be an act of random violence." Maj. Cathy Atwell, a spokeswoman for

the campus police. said that surveillance camcrn.c; throughout the garage might have capwred the shootings but that it w:~s not

clear last night whether they bad. Still. she said, it is "critical that the campus commu­nil)· and parents know that the university is COIK'Cmcd for the safety of its srudents."

In a :sLatement released by the uniVersi­ty, President C.D. Mote Jr. said that police had a-;surud the administration that the cam· pus was safe. "We extend our sincctc.o;t thought'> and praycn. for both individuals and to their families and loved ones." the sLatcmcnt said.

Few other derails were known last night about the shootings. which came on the beets of a string of killings in the region. Wednesday, a Prince William County man shot and killed his three sons before futally shooting himself. Also Wednesday, u man is believed to have killed his estranged wife and her parents in an Anne Arundel County tO\\nhouse before shooting and wounding him~lf during a police chMe. authoritic~ said; he died Thursday night. Early this month, three worker.; were killed during a robbery at Colonel Brooks' Tavern in Nonhcast Wa..JringtOO, and three men were fatalJy shot at a Landover Hills strip club.

The attempted murder-suicide is the latest in a string of tragedies to hit the CoUegc P.&k campus in the past 20 month..;, including the dcatlL<> of two men in unrelated drug- or alcohol-abuse incidents at fraternity houses.

Anne Spence Molds tbe Minds of the Young

JENN GJBSON Rcmcver Wukl\ Eduorwl Staff

For most pcuplc. 11 Job 1\ stmply lhnt ,, place they go from 9 a.m .• to 5 p.m .. \\ itc reports. control rhc mm­tons make cc~Jls For th..: re;;t, thts 1s J

time w share thetr eothu~ia:;m wath )'Oung· gtrls. to tlj to teach them, to broaden honzon~. bngmecnng proiCli· sor Anne Spence 1S working lfil•gcntl)' (O shm' ch1ldrcn thnt cngmccring as not a:- mmd boggling as rocket .;cience and that il J applicable to C\ ery day life.

Besides teachwg Statics and Mechanical Enginccnng Design at UMBC, Spence al"o teac:h.e!- at her local elementary school in Severna Park. Her second and third grader!> are doing a Lego robotics project this spring in which th.cy design robots to perform specific tasks. almost a Toymaking for Mechanical Engineers.

An extcnswn c)( this comes 10 late February wHh an cngmcering challenge for thco;c ,tudents at Bnlllmore ,_IJus~.:um of lndu~try. DnJdt:d by grades. the youngct studcnL' '" il I have Egbert the Egg p:Hilcipurc in 1 car race. If he crn..:k'i Lhc car must be rcdcssgncd, tf Egben d~)CS not br~-mk. then the ~tudcnt quaJJiies IM the next part of the rnce whtch measures <hst.mce .. The older ::.tu· dents will be building a four pa~scngcr ride that would he installed in a theme park.

Another project th.tt absorh' a good deal of Spence's time is a gram she is developing that would introduce cngl­necnng in algebra classe~ across the state of Maryland, a grunt that is spon· sored by the National Science Foundation. "lnstl.!ad of how many oranges you could buy for $1. you can learn about the force of a bridge." Spence states. This program h bemg

pluccd In Maryland algebru classes ol mtddle and hagh school stude-nts ... They get 'lmplc en mcenng cxpcn meuts and then do the math that goc~ With It,' she :;a):;,

Spence i also hc:n Lly mvoh cd m the Ccnt\!r for Women m Technolog) (C\VIT). 'It'. a rc.1lly g:rcat program. Spence assert·. Not onl) docs she sn on the mtcrnal board. Lhts busy professor abo intcn iews the scholar:> that want to be n part oi tht' program. Spence is incrcdibl> excited about May 3' Computcnn:mia Day. an event gcnrt.:d to middle school girls that astronaut Sall) Ride \\ill be participating in. One of the man~ seminars of the day will involve the girls taking a computer apart and then rcas:;cmbling H. ''ll's good because then she won't be intimidated m class with the boys," Spence ~ays. adding, "She'll already know how to do it."

Fine Arts First Aid Cabinets Pose Risks ROBERT REDDING

Rnriever Weekly Se11;or Writer

lf a student has an injury in the Fine Art." building they should hope to have it on the fourth floor of the west wing. Of the nine fll'SI

aid cabinets in the building. only the one by room 451 has severaltypel; of bandages, anti­septic !ipray. eye wao;h, bum gel. a splinter removal kit. a CPR face shield. bum gel and anti itch gel.

On the third floor by rooms 344 and 334, there is nothing in the cabinets On the fifth floor of the cast wing there is no cabinet at all. The other cabinets have a few types of band­age.-;. a ~mall amount of gauze and some lens wipes.

Mike Pound. Environmental Safety and Health Manager. said students simply steal the medical supplies. "We got burned in Rnc Arts:· said Pound. "'Thc..'Y cleaned them out within a week of when they were installed."

While first aid cabinet-. in the hallways are not required by Occupational Safety and Health Admioi<;ttation, Pound says it gives a false sense of secunty to have cabinets that aren't stocked. The Office of Risk

Management is con!iidcring taking the c:abi· nets down if the departments don., maintain them.

According to Poun<L the school spent over $1 O.<XX> on restocking last year. The sup­plies are paid for from department budget'!. "If they want us to restock them. they should put them in the office." said Carol Hes:-. the Dance Department Omir.

Administrative assistllll Angie Dudley said that icc packs. band aids and Ne~porin are necdcd to deal with pulled muscles. strains and scrape.' which are common injuric.., in dance. Dudley too suggL-slcd placing the cabi­nets in the dance studtos.

Opinions vary as to whether bandages. gauze and eye wac;h arc sufficient and how much of a problem the empty cabinet~ are.

Frc.shmnn Jason Mizurak said that the supplies were enough. but empty cabincls are a serious danger.

Charlene Gentles, a sophomore dance major, said the most common supplies such as band aids. ,gauze. eye wash are not sufficient. '1bey've never restocked them and they need more of everything." said Gentles. ''I'm glad I've never been bleeding to death because I

sure wouldn't find a band aid in one of [the empty cabinel<;.]"

However, sophomore Jenny Andcr..on said the ~upplies are sufficient and that ''kit<. need to have bandages and ointment so if any­thing happens. you can deal with it then and there.'' While Anderson doesn't think empty cabinets are dangerous because more St.'Tious tteaunent can be obtained el.;c\\here. she does think they should be maintained.

According to Pound. first aid cabinets arcn 't n.-quired in the hallways because Health Services is close by.

While the cabinet~; must have "bare essential~." such as bandages. lapC and disin­feclant, a doctor who inspected the cahmcts told Risk Management that they shouiU not place medical product'> such a.o; headache medicine in the cabinets. noted Pound. There are over 60 of these cabin('ts on campus at a cost ofbetwcen$115 to $150 for initial :.lock­ing.

Rc.'>tocking in the Fine Arts buildmg dif­feC) from that of the Chcmiqry building. where the labs are !'locked depending on that lab's hazards. The c-.tbinetc; in the Chemistry building have been restocked.

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UMBC Wins Grand Slam of College Chess OLIVER BARANCZYK

Retriever l-\h•kly Eclitorulf Staff

At a unhcr:-ity that hao,; received much pms'> thi:. year, due tl) its staiUs as a ' 'hoi"' school. it remains :t wonder that the extremely competitive chess program can be forgotten so easily. Despite ils relative anonymity. UMBC chess continues to win and make u name for itself, as recently it has successfully won the grand slam of col­lege chess.

The year hao; been filled with momen­tous accomplishments and developments for UMBC chess and the Director of the Chess Progr.tm, Dr. Alan Sherman. stated, "In terms of competitive team play, this year has been our best year ever for UMBC chess."

Similar to the grand slams of golf and tennk if a certain university succeeds in winning the three major competitions of collegiate chess, it will have completed a "grand slam." U~tBC prevailed in the three major tournaments; the Pan-American Inter-Collegiate Team Chess Championship ~PAN-AM), the President's Cup. and the National College Chess League Tournament (NCCL).

Of the! chrce competitions. the PAN­AM and President's Cup are both held in Miami, Florida. while tho third. the NCCL. has its chess teams play over the internet. While the PAN-AM takes place from December 27-30 each year. UMBC attend­ed the mol>t recent toumamcm. the President':. Cup. just earlier this month. from April 4-6.

Considered the "Final Four of College Ches~... the Pr~tdents Cup saw UMBC compete and triumph at the World Chess

Coun~y of Alan Shmnan Checkmate: UMBC's chess team has soared to new heights.

Hall of Fame against its primary nemesis. the University of Texa!-,·Dallas. as well as the University of Chicago and Miami-Dade Community College. By being the victor at the President's Cup. UMBC will be award­ed the commemorative trophy. on which UMBC bas its name engraved, and the uni­versity wiU keep the trophy for a full year until the next President's Cup competition.

While triumphing at the three major chess tournaments in the past year. UMBC's chess program has abo seen its profile in the world of college chess rise tremendously. The university awards scholarships to its chess players and this year has added a new schola.r.;hip. the UMBC Coca-Cola Chess Fellows. The new addition now incrca'ies the scholar­ships available to prospective chess players to four.

Sponsored by Coca-Cola, the scholar­ship has four possible positions for stu­dcnb, each carrying full tuition and a $15.000 housing stipend as benefits for stu· dents. The scholarship also holds cenain expectations for lhose four positions, as the chess players must have a Grand Master strenglh rating of over 2500 while Laking the role of a serious student. The recipients or the scholarship also must complete 300 hours of community service. The new scholarship has allowed UMBC lo attract four international masters to lhe campus.

UMBC also has three other types of schola.r.;hips for prospective players for the university: the Chess Player Scholar. Special Merit for Chess. and Tournament­Based scholarships. The Chel>s Player Scholar entails full tuition. room and board.

see UMBC CHESS, page 10

UMBC Community Takes Back the Night with Speeches, March and Speak Out

from THE MARCH. page 1

ual violence actually happen:;.'' "Take Back Ute Night" occurs on col­

lege campus across the country and is planned nt UMBC by lhe Voices Against Violen~·e program and lhc Women's Center in conjunction with the Sexual Assault Awareness Month plannmg committee. For many organizers. the participation of those pr..:.scnt symbolizes the first step toward rc~ising awareness nnd making change.

Heather Brantner, d1rector of the Voices Against Violence pro~ram. opened the march b) welcoming the crowd of over 50 people and emphasizmg the importance or their presence .. , thank you for showing up," she said, "for speaking out and for joining in the fight against violence against women.' '

Casey Miller, director of the Men Against Violence program. followed with a similar mcssa,g~ tlf suppon. "Rape is a human i!isuc." he said. ''The men in Men Against Violence will he speuking up with you ... Taking action is as simple as that: :.peaking up."

Miller and others made it dear that sexual a_<;snult docs not just include rape: the tenn is defined as any unwanted sexual contact. Furthcm1nre. one Mudent imolved tn the Advocates Against Violence program claimed that even non-phy:.ical contact can be received in much the o;amc way. Unwanted catcnlb, ogling and commentary can be as .. aults to one's sense of security

and feelings of selr-worth. These. too, she claimed. were what ''Take Back the Night'' was about

As the march commenced from in front of the Retriever Activities Center, par­ticipants were given a chance to do their own speaking up. Chants of "We have the power. we have the right; the l>lreets arc ours. take back the night" and "Yes means yes, no means no; whatever we wear. wher­ever we go'' filled the air as dusk settled over the UMBC campus.

Many marchers stated that though they felt that the campus is a safe one, ''Take Back the Night" was still important. The sister.. of Lambda Theta Alpha came out to .support the march as part of their chnpter philanthropy of domestic violence.

Erin Price. a student. SLaid she came 'just to !Jtow my support ... [the march] give more exposure to the( Voices Against Violence] progranl which I think a lot of people really don't know about."

Judith Can1pbcll. in Advocates Against Violence, expressed a similar sentiment. "Sometimes I feel like J have a false sense of security here bccau'c of the loop and lx.><:ause we are .self-contained. but people need to be aware of their surroundings at all limes."

Campbell also made not..:. of the 1mpact that the Voices Against Violence program. and specifically the Ad,ocntes Against Violence help-tine. were having at UMBC. "On a can1pus lbis ~izc. generally. there's

an estimated 175 sexual assaults a year. This campus, the year before the program

started, had two reponed. That number of reports is defirutely growing now that our program gives a central place for repons to go."

This may not be the case for long, however, as the grant that funds the Voices Against Violence program expires at the end of the year and the univcr..ity has yet to find new funding for it. Members of the Advocates Against Violence program and Men Agamst Violence circulated a petition at the march and at other times last week encouraging President Freeman Hrabowski. to make other funds available so that the program can continue.

Still. while Lhe fate of the Voices Against Violence program hangs in limho. the effect that il bas had on the campus continues to grow. A greater numb~r ol studen~ attended this year\ "Take Back the Night"· than lust year's inaugural march. Though the echoing chants that rang across campus Tuesday night have died down. it is the hope of organizers and participants alike that :--ilence will not overtake the issue of se7'ual assault. Said Campbell. "I think the fact that more peo­ple fonn more diverse organi7.ations arc

here shows tbat awareness i:-o getting rabed on campus and that more people arc coming out in support. It is au tssue that affects everyone:·

to Have Nuclear Bomb

SEOUUBEUING (Reuters)- Nuclear talks in Beijing ended on Friday after U.S. officials said North Korea disclosed it had atomic bombs and Pyongyang said it pre­~nted a plan to resolve the dispute but was ignored.

Despite lhe apparent deadlock. China. which hosted the three-day talks. said on Friday the three coururies had agreed the discu.<;.o;ions were a "good beginning'· to end­

ing a crisis that had been festering for six month.,.

A nuclear-armed North Korea would ~ a major threal to the region, South Koru's foreign minister said after a briefing by U.S. As.<;i~tant Secretary of State Jam~ Kelly. who flew lo Seoul for consultations after the t.alks in Beijing. "[(it's true that the North has nuclear weapons. it violates the joint North-South declaration on denu­cleari7.ation and would be a major distur­bance to peace on the Korean peninsula and to Northeast A-;ia," Foreign Minister Yoon Young-kwan said. refening to a pledge signed by the two Koreas in 1991.

Yoon did not elaborate on Kelly's brief­ing, which the U.S. envoy is scheduled to

repeal in Tokyo on Saturday. Kelly has said nothing publicly. But a

Japane.<;e official said he informed Japan his North Korean c<JUnlCip8rt. Li Gun, had dis­closed on Thursday !hat North Korea had nuclear weapons. Washington officials made similar comments.

China's Foreign Ministry said U.S. and North Korean negotiators shook hands and agn.-ed to keep diplomatic channels open after a la'it·minutc huddle between the three sides.

"All the participating parties considered lhe Beijing talks a good beginning of a process leading to the settlement of the North Korea nuclear issue." Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told Reuters.

A North Korea anned wilh weapons of mn.o;s dc.~truction would increase the threat to neighboring Japan. China and Sooth Korea and the 37,(XX) u.s. troops based there and make it trickier to craft a solutioo to the six­month-old nuclear standoff.

That i.solated North Korea. a last bas­tion of Cold War-scylc communism. ~­sc 'cs nuclear weaporu; will come a<; no surprise to the United States, which has long said Pyongyang could have at Jcao,;t one or two atomic bombs.

President Bush Jismislicd the North's line as "the old blackmail game."

"They said what we always knew," said one administration source who asked not to be named.

The United States had hoped lhc talks might be a lirsl step toward Pyongyang ending a nuclear weapons program wa. .. hington said it disclosed in October.

The Wa.,hington Post. in a report on ib Web :.ite ar wwh:washillgtonpost.com, quoted a U.S. official as saying Li had pulled Kcll} a.;idc and said. in effect:

"We've got nukes. We can't disman­tle them. II'" up to you whether we do a pbysic.'l! demonstr.ltion or transfer them."

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Police I og Theft from BuDding

April 16, 3:29p.m.; ECS Building­A UMBC staff member reported that pcr­soo(s) unknown entered her office and removed several credit cards and a Maryland driver's license from her purse. It was later learned that $2,591 worth of unauthorized purchases was made on the credit cards.

MaUcious Burning

April17.6:24p.m.; Harbor Hall-An unknown person set a pair of Hanes men's underwear on fire outside of Harbor Hall.

Warrant Service

April 18, 10:41 a.m.; Lot 13 - An alcn studeot in Patapaco Hall alerted the UMBC Police about 3 males walking around Lol 13 and seeming to focus on an Acura Integra that was parked in that lot. Officers responded and idelllified the individuals. When officers ran a wanted cbeck on the individuals, it was learned that. Montgomery County Police current­ly wanted one of lhcm. Yoenny ~ Paredes for several cnmes including 1st. Degree Burglary, Auto Theft. Destruction of Property and Qmsparacy. Mr. Camilo­Paredes was placed under arrest and detained for officers from MCPD. Sean:h incident 10 arrest yielded some burglar tools.

The quick action of this one obser­vant student surely prevented another vehicle theft and resulted tn the identifi­cation of individuals possibly responsible for stealing cars from our campus in the past. An inv~11gation will continue to ascertain bow these individuals may be involved in those thefts.

Theft of Vehicle Parts

April 18, S:37 p.m.; Outer Hilltop Cir./Dam Site. -While on patrol an offi­cer notiCed a vehicle without tags, When the officer made contact with the driver,

the driver stated that the tags mu..c;t have been stolen.

Underage Possession of Alcohol April 18, 9~35 p.m.: Hilltop

CirJCenter Rd. - While conducting an alcohol interdiction initiative, officers observed a student that appeared to be underage purchase alcoholic beverages. Upon the student's return to campus. the officers stop the vehicle and identified the driver and determined that she was in fact underage. The student was given a judicial referral and Maryland Civil Citation for alcohol violations. The pas­senger, also a UMBC student, received a judicial referral.

Burglary

April 19, 1:26 p.m.; UMBC Golf Dnving Range -While on patrol. UMBC police discovered that person(s) unknown pried open the doOr at the Golf Driving Range. lnvestigation revealed that there was no~ missing.

Underage Possession of Alcohol

April 19. 11:00 p.m.; Harbor Hall - Based on information of a UMBC RA. officers accompanied the RA to check the wellbeing of a student who wa.o; possibly endangered as a result of over-indulgence of alcohol. The room was found to be unoccupied, however, subsequent investigation led to the occupant of the room being charged judicially for alcohol violations.

Malicious Destruction of Property

April 20. 4:49 p.m.; Inner Hilltop Circle I Center Road - A UMBC stu­dent reported that person(s) unknown forcibly entered his truck via the pas· sengcr side wmdow and attempted to remove h1s vehicle CD player causing damage to the vehicle dash area.

UMBC Students Receive Unwanted Solicitations

MALCOLM FURGOL Retriever Weekly Senior Writer

Sleep. the past time of choice for students, is facing yet another challenge in the quest for thol-e ever elusive eight hou.rs of peace.

Throughout the month of April a magazine subscription company bas been disturbing students with early morning wake-up calls. For subscribing to one of their magai'.ines the solicitors promise swdeots entry into a drawing for a large cash reward. Along with being entered in the drawing. the com~ pany says it will send several other mag­azines free of charge to students.

Junior psychology major John Rock has talked to solicitors from the compa­ny four times.

··They told me I could win $10.000 if I subscribed to their magazines.'' Rock said as he recalled his interactions with the solicitors. He added that. "I was woken up three times by phone calls. the third time they woke me up I told them not to call me anymore in the morning." After being contacted once more in the afternoon Rock says that the next time he gets a call he will ask the solicitors to stop attempting to reach hJm .

Receiving unwanted solicitations is not a new phenomenon in the informa­tion age, but what is unique about these particular solicitations is that they are being delivered via students" on-campus telephones. Rock stated that it was "strange that they had my school address in Lheir records as well as using my cam­pus number to get in touch with me, this is the first time in the thrl!e years I've gone lO UMBC that I've received solici­tations on my campus phone."'

The company's :.olicitor~ have told studenLs that they rccei\·ed their contact information from the student"s credit card companic~>. but none of the students interviewed for lhis article had their campus phone number registered with their credit cards.

One student, freshman Humanities Scholar Asyntth Palmer, has never even bad a credit card. "When I told them l

didn't havl! a credit card they just hung up.'' Palmer ~aid of her discussi<ln With the solicitors.

Some student:. had their own theo­ries regarding how Lhe company wa~ able to get in touch with them. Rock sus­pects "that UMBC bas had some kind of role in the company obtaining students' campus addresses and phone numberl>:·

Palmer's roommate Katie von Brand. also a freshman Hum.tnitics Scholar. received two calls from the magazine company. She stated that the :.olicitors were upsel when ~he indicated she wasn't interested in buying a sub· scription and that they then proceeded to terminate the phone call.

Anotbcr student who received calls from the solicitors. freshman Kirsten Ederer, wa~ asked for her social ~ecurity number. which she refused to say to them. Her roommate bas also received a call from the solicitors. This was the first time either student had been con­tacted by solicitors at school.

The name of the company that made the solicitations was unavailable at press Lime. Either the students interviewed could not recall the company's name or claimed it was never given to them. "I never was told by the solicitors what company they worked for." said Rock.

In a possibly related incident com­puter science major Wesley Ray was contacted by solicitors via his cell phone. The :;olicitors promised him cash prizes if he completed a survey. Ray was perturbed that he received !iUCh calls on his cell phone. ··r have to pay for my minutes and do not like the fact that I have to waste them talking to people who lfY to keep me on the phone ac: long a.<> possible to sell me crap that 1 don"t want. don•t need or can't afford."

Another recent on-campus ~olicit;~­tion attempt involved a friend of Rock's. His friend had been getting free maga­zines in his campus mail only to be fol­lowed a few weeks later by a notice requesting him to renew his sub ... cription to the magazine~. publicatton' that he­had never asked for in the first place.

UMBC Research Team Makes New HIV Progress KAIDYE HANSEN

Retriever Weekly Staff Writer

Here at UMBC"s Howard Hughes Medical Institute, astonishing progress has been made in fighting the mv virus tn its early assembly stage. The discov­ery has located a new target on the HIV molecule which may open the way for a new branch of drug to battle the AIDS causing virus.

The team, led by Dr. Mike Summers and including Biochemistry graduate student Chun Tang; sixteen-year-old col­lege sophomore and Presidential FeJlow Erin Loeliger; ~kyerhoff Scholar and HHMI Undergraduate Scholar Isaac Kinde: and former Meyerhoff Scholar Samson Kyere. now an MD/PhD student ut the University of Maryland. Baltimore.

The Journal of Molecular Biology featured the discovery on the cover of its April 11. 2003 edition.

··The greatest challenge in treating HlV today is drug resistance brought on when the virus mutates and renders existing drugs ineffective at stopping viral replication," said Summers. ··our research has led to the identification of a new class of compounds that inhibit a novel target in HlV. Tbl!sc compounds disrupt the assembly of the HIV-1 ~apsid protein, which is a vital step in changing immature, non-infectious HIV into its mature. infectious form:·

This discovery was o;hared with col­laboraturs Achillion Pharmaceutical:>. a NI!W Haven, CT based privately O\\ ned drug company. as well as a Oregon Health and Sckncc University research

group. The research al>sistants are yet

another astounding aspect of this endeavor. "This work is yet another piv­otal achievement for Dr. Summers and his students:· says Anthony S. Fauci. M.D .• director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). "The fact that undergraduate students played pivotal roles in this research makes it even more impres­sh·c."

NJAID provides part of the funding and support for the research endeavor. as does the Howard Hughes Medical fn~titutc. the National Institute of General Medical Sc:icnce:-. and the National Institute of llcalth.

"1 always kn~:w that research was going on here at UMBC, but that it has

this big of an impact is news to me," eJtplaincd UMBC sophomore Trevor Nuchols. ·•1 am extremely excited that the discovery has been made. as well as the fact that it was made here.''

The team made the discovery in a branch of thought which has been hdd for quite some time but which has not seen much progress until now. According to Summers. ··rnvcstigators around the world have been looking at the HlV-1 capsid protein as n potential anti-viral drug target for more than a decade. and we are there­fori! particularly pleased to tinall) have solid lead-. to gu'ide thes-e effort<;. While \\-'e are encouraged by the laboratory tests of the: compounds we·ve identified so far, additional testing needs to be. undcrt<tken before this approach can hc tested in human~."

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Tbe Learning Resources Center and The Stadent S•pport Services staffs recognize the following peer tutors and student office assistants for outstanding service for Academic Year 1002 -1003. We also send congratulations to our graduating students.

Abimbola Adedeji .. Olugbemiga Adelwnle* Sahar Ali Sanat Dahl Bbramori Banerjee Sibrata Banerjee* Joshua Barczak Cameron Bardliving Amy Baumgarten Mike Beyer• Vinay Bhat* Amy Bodine• LiCao Megan Calvert• SooCha Daniel Chapman• Moumita Chatterjee• Charita Collins* TavonCooke Devin Cooper* Patricia Denver•• Deirdre Derrick** I..aurena Desi Rutbanne Doetzer Kathryn Ekey

Jesse EUsbury Steven Fost~ CaraFrame Mary Ghobadi Jacob Goins Kristina Golden Sekou Gordon Mark Headley Elizabeth Hernandez• Joanna Hoffman Amy Holthause LaTonya Howard Leah Hutchinson Chikwerendu Imo SaurabhJain Huguens Jean Gaurav Jolly* Janak Kalaria• Huma Kausaf* Ryan Kennedy Kelly Kern Svetlana Khvalina Cara Kircboefer Sergiv Kiselvov GeneKo

Dede Koffie-Lart Oksana Korostyshevshsya Nicholas Kridler ZbenLi Guolui Lui YoumingLuo Candice Mach Kyle Mahaney SalmaMalik Ronald Mardeusz Jessica McElvaney* Christiana Metzger Chad Mills Matthew Molter• Meghann Moragne El Kimberly Murphy My-Le Nguyen• Christine Nortrup Nwamak.a Onuigbo* Heather Owens Holly Owens Joy Pansini Anthony Parisella Mayank. Patel* Ajay Prabhu*

Ashish Pradhan Thelma Purdie•• Fabad Rahman Sarah Reilly Ryan Rittenhouse• Rob Savillo Guiliano Scarcelli llse Schweitzer• David Sembly Kayoko Shimada Laura Silverman Bradly Siskind* Luke Smart* Barbara Smith Eric Smith Anubhav Sonthalia Astrid Sperling Gfeg9ry Stott Zhibin Sun Oleksandr Sverdlov Jason Tice Stephanie Trickey Eddie Tsibulevskiy LaTuba Tucker-• Alejandra Valencia

Eric Valentine Kalavatby Vedhachalan Richard Walshe Joy Wang CanieWardu Sarah Weammert Aimee Webber Jaime Weinrich• Joshua Wmger Kelly Woodring• Ruslan Yunusov Jacquelin Zimmerman Zachary ZOller

•Graduates

• •Gnduata Receiving the Excellence iD Tutoriag Awards or Oaataadiag Service Award

Ehrlich Receives Mixed Welcome From Students from EHRLICH. page I

noted with amusement items on Sho..:kley's rc ... ume. including hh role in the campus Democrats anJ intermhip wilh a Dcmocrattc legislator. He also acknowledged the presence of the .. crazy bunch" of supporters from the campus Republican party, who stood in the back of the crowd adorned in old "Ehrlich for Governor" campaign materials.

Ehrlich said that Lhe key to achie\­ing things in government despite pani­san differences was respect. "Respectful agreement at times. or respectful disagreement, ,but always respectful." he said.

He also exprcs~cd his interest in "trying to protect what the campus has done;" that i~. its progress ant.l success. "There's no rea:>on we o.;hould allow tight budget times to narrow our focus or our goals.'' Ehrlich ~>aid.

However. the governor did not address the rhing tuition costs - which have gone up 5% this year and will go up another 14% next year - or say :-pecifically what he intended to do to help the o;chool.

However, the governor had plenty of praise. "There arc few schools in the country right now as hot as UtvfBC." he .said.

Ehrlich took several questions from the audience. The first addrl.!ssed the Del a" are '[ax shelter" loophulc. which corporations in ~1aryland can use to avuid paying taxes. Ehrlich's reply was that the concept ol a tax loophole is rei-

alive. ''What for some people is a tax loophole b for others a tax preference:· he said.

The topic of the slob legislation Ehrlich rccenlly tried to get through the General Assembly wa:. also raised. "I do not suppon nor do l advocate casinos:· Ehrlich began his reply. He also tried to distance the mauer from party politics. "Please do not view this as a partisan issue," he entreated.

Ehrlich went on to say that he would like to try the bill again next legislative session, bul only il the climate in the Assembly is different. "I'm not going to expend political capital - of which I have a limited amount- if I don't sec a change in personnel or mindsct.'' he said. "I'm· not advocating a per~onncl change," he hastily added, "bul 1 need to !>CC at least a change in mindsct."

For the final tjucstion, the micro­phone \\3!\ usurped by one of the sup­poncrs of woutd-11<: presidential camli­datc Lyndon LaRouche. LaRouche cam­paigners have made themselves notori­ous on campus for handing (lUI literature amongs~ the academic buildings. and a groan ran through the crowd as the speaker's identity became clear.

The LaRouche advocate talked about the economic state of the world and the war in Iraq, asking whether Ehrlich would support several of LaRouche's proposals concerning the US economy and President George W. Bush ·s cabinet. Ehrlich interjected only to insist that Defense Secretary Donald

Rumsfeld be referred to as "Secretary Rumsfeld."

Ehrlich began his reply to the lcnglhy question by asking everyone to be respectl'ul. "T would disagree.'' he said. saying that the war in Iraq has in fact been going on for twenty year!>.

He then went on to say that the real war is against "a loose confedcrarion of terrorists" who would ''take away your right to do what you just did.'' He praised Bu~h·s stance on Pale:.tine and lauded the war effort. Ultimately. he said, ''Maryland is a safer place hccause of what the presid~nt did:'

Hrabowski urged :;tudents to look kindly on Ehrlich, dcsp1te fiscal woes. ''This man has a very difficult job to do." he said. "He's trying to make :;urc you have the classes. fadlities and faculty you need.'' Hrabow:.ki also presented the governor with a Chess Team jacket. The Chess Team recently won a national championship in college chess.

Shockley said afterward that all stu­dents have a voice in the fiscal future of Lhe school. The tuition increase for next year is o.;ct, but student'> can still affect the year alter that .. ~very student needs to go to Annap?lis and light for tuition." Shockley urged. ··we have a say."

Freshman Rose. Cappozi of Lhc cam­pU!> Republicans said her group fell it necessary to come out in support of the governor. "We're trying to show our support for Ehrlich and his effort'> to support higher educauon in these umes of. .. fiscnl ... crisis," Cappozi said. She

. added lhat they were undaunted by the funding cuts. "We know that he's work­mg to do it.," she ~aid. sa) ing that the governor faced challengl!s from the leg­islative "system:·

Cappozi also said she thought the governor would face r.ignificanl oppo~i­tion if be tried to bring a budget with more money for education before the Assembly.

Freshman David Gill of the Green Party said his group was present to try to gauge Ehrlich. ''We wanted to ::;ee him," Gill said. ''There are a lot of issue:. we don't agree on.''

In a statement released la~er, UMBC Students Against Violence and Exploitation (SAVE) expressed their dbgust at the governor's appearance. taking particular objection to hb Jbcus­.sion of the war and llrabowski':; defense of the govl!rnor. "We are ashamed that President Hrabowski did not stand up for the concerns of UMRC students and faculty. lnsrcad, he rc!>orted to public begging." lhc statemenL said.

Sophomore Rah-cd Ghume. a 'tu· t1cnl who was born in Lihya and knows lirsthand the type of police stare with which Ehrlich threatened war oppo· ncnts. also miced hi~ dismay. ··1 think it was a huge letdo\\ n rhat instead of !)tanding by students, lfrabowski found it necessary to beg.'' Ghuma said. "I think he's right about a loose confcdera· tion or terrori~ts:· Ghumc added. ··But they exist in this country."

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Distinguished Professor Discusses African-American Visual Art Theory

Jean Doughcrly I Rclrtc~ur Weekly Staff Talking Art: David Driskell discussed the history of African-American art.

KARL STRAUSS Retritn:er Weekly Staff Writer

Art historian David Driskell gave a pre!icntation at UMBC last week on the development of African-American an.

Curator. artist and lecturer, David Driskell presented ··stack Visual Theories: A Spiritual Rendering" in the Albin 0. Kuhn Library Gallery. The lec­ture traced the development of African­American visual art theory and it rela­tion to the spiritual and religiou~ tradi· tions in African-Amencan culture.

His presentation consisted mainly of a slide show including works by famous artists such as the prominent h:aders of the Harlem Renail:.sance. a time when, as Dri:-kelJ ~aid, "the pauern of traditional landscape art was broken." The two artists fealUrcll from this era were Aaron Douglas and Alain LQcke. Dr. Driskell showed several pieces by Douglas including "Judgment Day"' and "The Cruci lixion."'

Dri:o.kcll h:t!i done many artistic ren­dcnngs in his lifetime and has had them exhibited al the D.C. Moore Gallery in New York and other galleric-. throughout the Umted State!> as well as South Africa. Poland, and Brazil. Professor Driskell has aho authored five honk.s. co­authored four others. and published 40 catalog:. from exhibition~ over the years.

As a resull of his achievements, Driskell has received nine Honorary Doctorate Awards and was given the prestigious President's Medal 10 J 997 at the University of Maryland College Park .

He discu:-.sed ho\1. Locke helped ere-

ate art that was more connected to the ancient African past. According to Driskell, Locke and other artists of the Renaissance "equated culture with the manifestation of who they were as a peo­ple ... They looked to the past to help buill! the future.

Following his speech on the Harlem Renaissance. Driskell told the story of his own past and how he became inter­ested in the arts. He drew much inspira­tion from his father. who was a Baptist preacher in North Carolina. Driskell said his father's sermons "fueled his own beliefs, works and interests." He then displayed several of his aruslic render­ings. One of these was the Arc Angel Gabriel, which he completed in 1965.

The final two slides ~hown in the presenration were two wmdows that he designed for the People':; Congregmional Church in Wa<>hington D.C. Bath the east and the \l-est windows are products of hi~ work and inspir,tlion. Dri!ikell said the~e two windows "connect religion to slav­ery and utilize some forms of Christian iconography."

Dri:-kell received his undergraduate degree from Howard Univer,lly and then went on to earn a ~lasters in Fine Art" at Catholic University. Tht• profcs!>or then dill his post-graduate work at the ~ethcrlands lmtitute for the History of Art at The Hague.

Driskell's lecture was th~: final one in the ~erics sponsored b) the Center for Humanities and was in honor of the founder of the Humanities center. Daphne Harrison.

Can't Kick the Habit? UHS Will Help for Free

K.AIDYE HANSEN Re1ritwr Weekly Stt!tf Writer

It's 3 a.m. home\\ork i gettmg nowhere ami lhe smokers can be seen out the wimhl\\, puffing away. relaxed. The temptation bccmne~ too great. and five days of quilling ~o dO\\ n the drain. The cigarette ta~te. bad, hut fot some reason it i!i still sat­isf)ing. 1l1il> is called an adJiction. and can be triggered by many thing!>. Stres.<: is one of the tnaJ.l) tnggcr.; that can cause a person to light up a cigarette. UHS can help baHlc the addiction as well ns the triggcrl>.

Through rc-.titution funds from tobac­co settlements provided by yearly granLo;, the UHS is- happy to provide an independ cnt nicotine replacement program. free of charge to smdcnts and taculty.

Phil is the studcn1 peer educator, who ''orks most directly with the studcn~. It i!i a taidy .'traightforward program. "A stu­dent, or stafl member comes in. and fills ou1 a form witb ba.,ic intake information: email. cigarettes a day, medication. trig­gers ..... explained Hahn. "From that infor­mation. we then determine how mucb n.ico­Ltnc rcplacem~.o•n.t to stan them at: 21mg is step one. and 14 mg is step two. In addition, we determine whether we will add gum or lozenges as 'ubstitutes for craving).:·

The students arc then added to an email list, which is divided into two parts, the active and the inactive. The active arc tho~c who arc still continuing with the pro· gram, the inactive are those who are not.

Many students arc seen multiple times. .. It's an addiction. and il often takes more than one time to try and quia:· explains llahn. '"This semester we have already helped eight people to finish the program. and are working with 18 active membc~ currently:·

'This is an excellent program. one of the reasons I haven't tried to quit is because

l don't have the money ttl," ~ays frc~hman

Larissa Schofield, "but this gives me the stufl" for free. as "ell as giving me mccn­tive;;, where would I Jose"?"

Kari Bruce. UMBC'~ Health Educ.uor. displays her recent pun:ha..sc of nicotine replacement aids f(lr the p1ognun. reading off lhe receipt. "Nicodenn patchc., - $40 a box, ;.:icnrctte gum- $52.99n box. Cllmmit Lozenges- $38 a box." All of this is pro­vided free of charge to tho e who ... tgn up for the program.

In allllition to the n•cotine replacement, there is candy and IWJZIJc sticks m the vfficc. ''I have one ktd who likes the cmna­mon toothpicks,'' !>ttys Hahn. At the suc­cessful completion of Lite program. I he per­son rccci\""C' a gift certHic:ttc to Arundel :\1ills malL

The only thing the program doesn't :-;upply io; Jependcncc. "II is nn independent program. we don't ha\·e any meetings like NA or AA." say!i Hahn.

The number ol smoker- at UM BC is actually much lower than most people would think. "Through research anJ sur­veys we have conducted here at UM BC we have found that only 30 percent of students identify themselves as smokers. The per­ception is much blghcr than the reality be.cause the smokers are always there, to be seen."

Hahn feels that the prvgram i!i :-uccess­ful for the mo.st part. The things which hdp lO make it un.succc,..,fuJ are those which the program battles so fiercely. Phil explams, "Smoking is an alldtction, lots of things can trigger it. such as stress. which is preuy hard Lo avoid here at school. Another trig­ger tlhlt is common is partying. drinking with friends: people tend to light up u lol more often."'

The current program began in January 2003, and the prior program began in September 2002.

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Faculty Concerned From Faculty About Hiring, Salaries BRANDON DUDLEY

Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff

A recent article in the Baltimore Sun detailing th~ rise of upper level admini,rmtor salaries at UMBC ha-; caused conccm for the llistory depanment and prompu:d the depart­ment to write a letter to President Freeman llrabowsk't decrying the ~itutation .

The lcucr. which was dated April 7 and whose subJect line was ''Furlough~. Salaries. Staffing•• expre~sed the lli~tOJ)' faculty's .:on­cerns regarding the furlough days nnd the administrative lines and ~alaric.s lib well as hiring tremb. within the department.

The letter wa\ sent to Hrabowski aru.l was also sent to Pro"o't Anhur Johnson and De~ of Arts and Sc1ences G. Rickey Welch. According to Johnson. Hrahowski is looking forwanl to discussing the issue v.ith the facul­ty but ha.'> not yet repbed.

The first concern raised in the letter, which W<l' v. rilten as a result of monthly fac­ulty meetings and other discussions. was v.ilh the use of the term "furlough'' to describe what the department sees as pay CUt'i. "We fully agn:e with the decisions to achieve nec­essary budget cut-; this year by pay reductions rather than by Ia) oft\ and to bold the lowest­paid employees of the Univea-ity h1muless in the pay cuts. We objccL. however, to the euphemism "furlough" for what is in fact a reduction in pay with no retluclion m work or in c:las..w.>. Whatever the reasons for using the term, it has not been adequately explained LO

others by US!\ 1 or carnpus administ.rJtors.''

''We object to the euphemism ~~furlough" for what is in fact a reduction in pay with no reduction in work or in classes:'

According to Johnson. this is n misun­derstanding of common Human Re:.ourcc.c; tenns. Johnson defined ·furlough' as a pay reduction. Johnson also went on LO define "pay reduction" a-. a reduction of base pay. He also went on to say that uwe have r.ricd very hard to explain to the public and to leg­islators what we have done and what sacri­tices arc hcing made, and of course other campus.cs hnvc laid employees ofT and we have tried to avoid thaL''

According to Dr. Ktio;te UnJ~·nmeycr. one of the signers or the letter. the cunccms were broader than ju~t defimtion~ though. ''The faculty :-.upported pay cul1i ("furloughs .. ) to bclp solve the current budget shortfall," sbc "aid in an e-mail interview. "However. we object to the term "furlough" since this w~ effectively a pay cuL ntc dc.~ignatoo furlough days occurred dunng Spring Break when no one w-as teaching. bUL still paid as pan of their annual salary. Facully do a lot more than reach cla..,.-ses. Teaching cla\l.m; is an extreme­ly important part of faculty responsibiliti~.

but tt is not their only responsibility. In other words. the work-load remllincd the $alllC, but ull taculty accepted a pay cuL No cla,ses were cancelled. and no other work respons1b1lities were adjusted. The faculty did not want the students to suiTer under the current cuts, so the plan to Jesign:ue the pa) cut day' during Spring Break is probably the oot dcX'IO..ion. But the use ol tlte term "furlough" docs not emphasize that this was a pay cut-not a vol­untary work anti salary reduction. me situa­tion was :-.tmilar for :stttff nnd adminl .. trntors although teaching rcs.JXmsibitities gcnemlly do not apply." Lindcnmcyer went on to :-ay that "Using the term furlough seemed an 10!->Ult to rnany who wanted 11 label that more o.~ppropriatcly dc~ribed their sacrifice for the good of the university.''

Another of the major concem.o; that the fa~:ulty has IS with compressiOn. Compression is when the starting ~alruics of new employ­ees is eitl1cr equal to. matches. or even I!Xcecds that of employl'cs who have been working at a job for n number of years. Ac:conling to Johnson. lh1~ is caused by a cumpctivc. !ugh demand job markeL Jtlhnson agreed that this was a problem. ''Over the year.; the salary increases were not that large.. yet the market and inflation wO!b to raise incoming salaries, so the rate of inflalion and demand for the market are going up at a more rapid rate than salary increases would. We've done some things to combat that but clearly it's a problem."

According to Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Marilyn Demore.st the university has done some thing~ to combat lhi:o. compre~sion by raising tbc increase in salary when a tacul­ty member is promoted. lbc current promo­tion increaw is $~.000 or $5.000. depending on position. A few years ago it was $1.500 and $2,000. She ackowlcdged that compres­sion was still a problem. h<>wcver. and that the university wa., looking tor ways to fix it. but the cum:nl budget crisis was damaging that cH'ort.

The current promotion increase is $3,000 or $5,000, depending on position. A few years ago it was $1,500 and $2,000.

The number of part-time and full time faculty. as well as tenure and tenure-t.rnck fac­ulty is also a concern. "Full-timo faculty le!>pecially those who are tenured or on tenure-track) build strong programs and hring opportunities for student:. to campus r.hruugh their research and publicaJ.ions," o;aid l.indcnmeycr. "Retaining talented and pro­ductive faculty il> key to having nationally ranked dcpanmcnts and programs-and maintainmg "an honor:. university.'' 111ese factors alone directly affect students. but there are also other i~~ues. PmHime faculty may be excellent lcaclter... but they do not do !>tudcnt

mhismg. have little lime for mentoring stu­dcllls. are usually not in a po:.ition to do re:-.earch. ami too uften have few connections in their professiqnal fields that "ill help ~tu­dcnts advance thctr career goals. Full-time faculty also serve an importam role in campus governance, another issue that ilirectly niT eeL-. ~tudent,."

Ac.;cording to Dcmore:c-t. the university has put a great deal into hiling faculty, but limitations in the budget crearc problems. Dcmon.-st sUited that part time facuhy arc more t.-conomkal, but that the unhcrsity would rather sec more full Lime faculty in mo.o;t ca:;e~;, hut sometimes part time faculty •lrt hired because they arc expert' in their field, but nlso h~tve other Jobs, pre\ cntmg them from being fuiJ time htres.

'"The percentage of tulltime inst.nJction· aJ faculty. despite small impmvements in the past two years, fell from about 58% in 1996 to 48% in 2002. · ~aid lindenmeyer .... I11e percentage or full-time tenured and tcnure­trock faculty feel from a high of 49% of aJI faculty in 1996 to 37% in 2002. But the spe­cific numbers ar~ not what is troubling. Whnt is most iroubling is the fact that swdent enrollment rate.' are outpacing and the. pro­portion of full-time faculty (c.c;pccially tenure and tenure-track positions). The university Planning and Leadership Team has begun to talk about these issue~. hut solving this prob­lem will demand attention tmm many levels aero~ campus, and a strong commitment from the adminbtmtion."

"One of the implication~ there is that we haven't hired enough faculty, .. said Jobn~on. "Between 1998 and the year 2002 we have hired 135 tenure traek faculty at a co:.t of $8 million in staning salarie' and 8.2 million dollars in start-up cost.s. That gaw us a net­gain of 35 tenure trnck since 1997. We made the hires between 1998 and 2002. In addition to that we hin.'d unother 92 non-tenure track faculty includes visiling and 1<..-cturer appoint­ments and clinical faculty. We have i.ncrcasetl faculty by 78 since 1997.

Dcmore. ... t als~, said the small oumhcr of cla'>scs taught by graduate student<; increases the amount of part time faculty. Demorest expressed concerns about the fact that m()st grad students are cxpecteP to go on and teach at othe~ schools. but get very little time, it any. to wach here at UMBC. "We have relatively few classes taught by grad ~tudents, she said. "Mayhe we should be doing more grad stu­dent teaching," she went on to say. "Maybe that's not tile right thing to do."

Another concern addrcsscd in the lcttc:r was that of high salaries and mises l(lr upper level administrator!\. According to the Sun article. the top 30 officials at three state uni­versities have had an average mise of $68,000 per person. or 41 percent. According to the article. the combmcd pay for the rhrce UMBC \ ' ICc pre5idents ha.o; increased 58 percent SJnce 1998 and sUites 1J1al thdr mise:. were in lhc amounts of $62.000. $64.000, and $52.000. The 15 vice presidents Ill University of Maryland in Bnllimore. UMBC and College Park had median salaries of $210.000.

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$25.000 more than the national avemgc tor the largest schools in the country, acconling to the Sun rcpon. Hrabow~ki's ,aJary ha.-. gone from $182,347 in 1998 to S330.720. an inclC:JS(' of 81 percent. The average salary of History faculty. according to the letter, ha.' only risen 20 perccnL

Hrabowski's salary has gone from $182,347 in 1998 to $330,720, an increase of 81 percent. The average salary of History facuhy, accord­ing to the letter, has only risen 20 percent.

"The figur"" on lhe compensation and salary increases of admmtstrator_, arc on their face astonishing," c;aid the Jcuer cnt to Hrabowski, "especially 10 the perspec­tive of staff and faculty salaries. We have no ohjccllon to appropriately high salaries for administrator" at UMBC. wbo have important and demanding positions; but we arc concerned about how dispropor­tionate their increases have been as com­pared to those for faculty and staff. We also observe tl1at Lhe salary mcreases for administrators bring lhem to (or above) the level of their peers in l\laryland and elsewhere at the same time that faculty salaries overall at UMBC are allowed to languish behind their pccrl' elsewhere!'

According to Johnson, much of thi:. i:. because of the competitive JOb market for high level administrators. Each of the ~icc presidents have had offers from oU1cr uni­vcrsitie~. he ~aid.

When a.'>kcd about Hrabowskt'!>. salary. Johnson said ..... compare it to any chief executive running <:~ $280 million company" and that his salary would b~ constderably less. When asked about the percentage of the incceas~ of at.lministra­tors. Johnson declined to comment, say­ing. •·J don't want to come .tcross as defen­sive or as debating th\.' history depart­ment."

Demorest stated lhat she believed, witht the amount of work that Hrabow,IJ docs. that he is worth twice what he gets and that he ghcs much of his money buck to the school and to chanty.

Demorest also !-.aid that the percent­age of salary increases nnd hiring were much more complicated than they first appeared. "Simplistic compari,ons are very easy to make." she said.

Accordtng to Lindenmcycr. the high compression rate and the lack of compara­ble mise percentages could affect future hiring. " ... I hope that the administrati•>n will see this a!> :1 potential prublem and address these tssucs now so that they will not be a problem in the future.''

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Organizations on April 15 with over a thmi of that body not present. charge.-. that Shockley. who was recently rc--clcctcd for the 2003-04 school year. vwlatctl the SGA election policy as weU ~ the Maryland Open Meeting Act-a state law-and "slandered" members of the SGA.

The Portfolio ofEvidem.:c is available for student review at the OtTicc Assistant desk of the Studl)nt Organi7.<ltions offices in the Commons. The rwcnLy--onc-page document consists mostly of cmails between members of the SGA, including recent presidential can­didate Brian Swayne and :-.tali members of 17Je Retriever Weekly. There is also an unpub-­lished draft of a Retril'ver article a.o; well as a series of email<> between Shockley and an anonymous correspondent named only as "Concerned Student." There is a lengthy ex~:crpt from the Open Meeting Act and, finally. a copy of a Retri~l't'r Weekly article, "New SGA VP A(l(lOinted"(Feb 4).

According lo SGA l>ylaw~. after lhc impeachment legislation is passed, the defen­dant has ten business days to prepare his defense. The constitution further specifics thatlhe trial mu!'>t be beld in the ''fir.;t regular meeting of the Jcgislalivc body not bringing the charges." Considering this and the Senate's schedule. May 12 is the lln.t and only date available.

Cirincione said he offered the Senate the opportunity to su..-,pend the rules and call a Special Session of lhe Senate to have the trial earlier. but they declined. "After some di.scU!'>· sion. the Senate body found it more prudent to have the trial on May 12, although it is the last meeting of U1e Senate.'' Cirincione said.

If found guilty and ordered to leave office, Shockley will have a month to do so. By the time this month is up, Shockley will have begun his ne,'l(t term. so he will spend no time out of office.

Some student:- interviewed adm.iltcd they were not very familiar with the atfair. but

UMBC's Unstoppable; Chess Team Does It Again

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with the requirements being a combined SAT score over 1400. a chess rating over 2000. and the player must graduate in the top 10% of hisn1cr high school.

The Spt.'Cial Merit for Chess scholar­ship is similar to .-.cholarships givllll to artists and musicians who choose to attend U.\1BC. in that there is a cash amount (val­ued$1.000-$10.000) to each recipient. The student must also be in good academic <;tanding and hold a chess rating over 2300.

The last c;cholarship is a Tournament­Based available to chess players that have \\on tv.·o pa.-;t tournaments. the Maryland Schola);tic Che.ss Championship tknown ru.

lhc "Sweet 16") and the United States Cadet Champion.,rup. which is an invita­tional tournament lor £he top ten players American players under the age of seven­teen. If meeting the requirements for the scholarshtp, the player is awarded full tUition by Ul\1BC.

Rcgardleso; of the different aspects of each M:hnlarship, the universal require­ments for all prospective rcripients remain that they mu~t maintain a cumulative GPA of3.0 and he a fuiJ .ume Mudcnt at UMBC. The scholarships have allowed the universi­ty 10 attract students to UMBC from many other schooh and Dr. Sherman explained. "We have attracted students who have turned do\\ n Harvard, Yale. and the Ma~sachuscus Institute of Technology eMIT)."

The recent c;uccess for the chcs~ pro­gram is not taken lightly by those involved. A gradual Improvement has been made each year that has helped UMBC chess to achieve such an esteemed po~Jlion in colle­giate chcs)o. At the PAN-AM tournament in 1990. UMBC placed 26 out of 27 teams. standing as a distinct low point in the pro­gram's history. Yet, thinecn years later. the program has made its mark on collegiate chess. with the program's expansion a major improvement.

Dr. Sherman. an ClSliOCiate professor of Computer Science at UMBC and <tlso the Director of the UMBC Center for Information Security and Assurance

(CISA), became involved with the chc!)~ program in 1991, two years after he began to teach at the university. ln 1991. Dr. Sherman assumed his prc!>Cnt role ol the Faculty Advisor of the chess club and thl' Director of the che~s program.

Dr. Sherman has witnessed the ucmcn­dous transformation of the chess at UMBC. as the chess club wa..s first a recreational SGA organi7atioo a.. a student club. "Today," descnl>cd Dr. Sherman. "we arc pan of the Intellectual Sports council and are more like a D1vision I athletic team."

All of the accolades rrom emerging \'ictonously frQm each tournament have brought a grc;1tcr media coverage for th~ program. UMBC's chess program has been rccogni7.cd on CNN, BBC Radio, Maryland Public Television (MPT), National Public Radio CNPR), the Today Show on l\'"BC. Good Morning America on ABC. as well as in the Washmgton Post and Baltimore Sun. The chess program has );urely dvnc ib share to .. pread the word about not only the program. but UMBC as well .

It is an excttm~ time for the chess pro­gram at UMBC. wilh the annual student/faculty chess tournament held dur­ing Qumlmania and th~· upconung Spceu Chcsl> Spectacular. The Speed Che~s Spectacular will be held nn Thursday. May I on Main SU'l'Ct in the Commons from 11:00 a.m.-2:00p.m.

A big event for the chess prngram, the Speed Chess Spectacular "ill ha\'c move­by-move sports commentary provided by JOCK 1300 AM radio. Competing for $1.000 against top schools like MIT. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and Duke, the Speed Che~s Spectacular will involve 16 players that each have five min­utes to complete the chess game.

The UMBC chess program has grown and displayed its talent for several year.;, yet it.-; success remains rclarivcly unknown to students, Nevertheless. students can come out to the Speed Chess Spectacular to sec the top chess players from UMBC compete in what Dr. Sherman proudly called "an exciting intellectual ~port."

those who were expressed <~kcpticism. "l think it's ludicrous," said junior Chris Cannier, who called the impeaclunent "typi­cal government bullshit." Cormier said the timing of the impeachment is a I~ part of his opinion. "He's impt.~ched. but he's rein­stated. It makes about as much sens.: as Clinton and Monica L..cwmsk.i." Cormier sa1d.

Other ~tudent.<> also compared lhc situa­tion to the impeachment of fonner president Bill Gimon, who was not removed rrom office. Sophomore Tanya Cohen had a diOcr­cnl opinion of the impeachmenL however. "From what I've hcan.l, he probably deserves it more than Clinron did," Cohen said.

Freshman Chris Stanton was of a dilfcr­ent mind. "It dido 'l st.'Cm like he did a whole lot wrong," Stanton satd. He also cited the fact that only ten of the sixteen-member House of Organizations wa..'\ pre.<;(!nt for the vote. "lt seems like impeachment is a big deal to throw it around l.ikl! that." Stanton said.

Freshman Kate Laskowski, who called

the impeachment '\hady," noted that the pres­id~'fttiaJ election rcsuiL" were appealed around the time the impeachment was presented made her skeptical. "It sounds like they're milly trying to get rid of him." Laskowski said.

At-cordmg to House of Organ1:r.<1tions minutes tmm the April 15 session in which U1~ kgtslation was pali.S(..>d. Representative and legislation sponsor Kristen Cevoli maintained that the impeachment wa..o; n()( a matter of dis­like hut mthcr of re!iponsibility. "This is not a personal thing. thi'< is a govcming body and 1 feel that tl has a responsibility to ru.1 in <."Crtain ways and I felt that he has brccchcd things that he is obliged to uphold, thus leaving us \vith l.itUe choice,'' Ccvoli :said.

Governor Robert Ehrlich recently select­ed Shockley for lhe position of Student Regent for lhe siJltc. There is no '-"Ord yet from Shockley's ollicc on how t.hi'> will affect his presidency next year.

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Rape happens at .. hot schools" tool UMBC's Vokes Against Violence program. whicti hell?s stop violenc~ at UMBC. rc<:ently Mid a

'1'dkc Back rhe Night" march and "-peak- out. n was an opportunity for memben> ol the U'MBC commu­nity to show thetr :suppqrt for victims and survivori> of violence. including domestic violence. sexual a:..-.ault. scl(ual harasl'>m~.;nt and stalking.

Given the scnsttivc nature. and the importam;c of this C\Cnt. we were app:\llcd by the undignified man­ncr with which certain members of the UMBC con1munity "onduct~ themselves. Ev"n at an "'honon,'' uni­'Vcnmy \'. c found hecklers al a rape v:tgi I. Mnny of these hcddcn; wore Greek letters.

Sptlcifk ~lurs mcludcd, ''N1.1 means yes," an<J "You girls JUSt need to take it up 1.M ass.'' This was directed at rape victims. This i!; an occasion for outrage. and is indicative of tl1e support that Vo1ce .t\~Jitins.t Violence ha':l gutt~n from the stuJcnb.. Some members of the administrat111n convey the same taak or !>Up­

port by refusing to institutionalize Voices Against Violence. Despite a dramatic mcrease in ro::portcd instan,:cs on ~ampus since our program's inception, we an~ Jeft

at th~ end of the semester not knowing if our unmensely $UCccssful program wilL sec another dime. C~ain member.; of lbe 3dminist.ration rcfltse co tak¢ a stand on the incredibly unportam i~sues our program addresses, and by domg so-dtsregard the basic safety of aU15tudents on c~unpus. Not to menttt')n by nor insti~ tuUonali;.dng the program, they \\ill be in violation of MaryJnnd st\te taw. which n..-quirc~ for there to be "1clims' sen ices and resources on university campuses.

We arc the only cxjsting program on campus which has the capacity to sen'e that need. We have received over 50 reports of sexual vJOlence, where in the previous two y~at'S before the pro­

gram there were only 3 reported c~e."' This is an unrc.ali!Otic figure. as up to one thtrd of young adultc; between the ag.es of 16 to 24 have been reponed being involved in an abusive dating situation. Not only does Maryland state law mandate the rep()rting services that VoicesAgain..<;t Violence provide. but provid­ing such sen ices is the right thing to do.

If any tratcmlty feels slandered as a result of this letter, we urge them to vmce their support tor Voitcs Against Violenct--:;pcdficaiJy Men Against VJolcnce:......tly coming to our meeting next Thursday May I, at 4pm in the Health Educa1ion <:onference room on the first floor of Erickson. Administrators with con­.;erns are welcome to attend as welL We look forward to seeing yqu there.

Sincerely, The Onder~igned Scott Nkholson Rah-ed Ghuma LucClark Studen~ Members of the Men Against Violence Program

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Despite Rain Quadmania Comes Up Strong

Despite all the r(!in on Saturday morning. the events for Quadmania went on as planned and everyone was treated to a fantastic day. Thank1. to SEB and the SGA, Quad mania 2003 was just another da) for students · to get drunk, participate in all the feslivities. and to hang out with that neighbor that you have never talked to before. Though the crowd was a little small at the beginning, it soon picked up as the afternoon went on. Al.l the "props" have to go out to SEB for their constant success with bringing talented performers to th1s campus. This time it was Third Eye Blind who rocked the stage, and what a party it was! Crowd surting was the thrill of the evening as students lined up to be thrown onto thick throngs of lhousands of emhusiru.lic fans. For all the faithful attendees who were over 2J, the Beer Garden did wonders for the brain cells, and the same can be said for the Tilt-a-whirl, which left students dazed and confused. Can Quad mania get any better than this'?

Well. yeah, maybe next time Quadmania will not be scheduled on a rainy day and those security guards will let people walk on the Quad. What ts so special about the Quad that students can't walk on 1t to see the bands play, even on Quadmania? As nothing can be done about it now. this looks like another issue for President Hrabowski to have brought to his attention for the future.

Three Cheers for SEB Hip ... One cheer for another great Quad mania. Our annual spring­

time ballyhoo cclebrmcd 21 years of cxi!'.tence in a way. that would do even the most dedicated partier proud. So wbat if Third Eye Blind is no Sbakira? Do we really go to Quadmania for bands. especially when there is a garden growing beer steps mere steps away'! SEB proved once again that it has its tingers squarely on the pulse of the community and will gladly give us what we want.

Hip ... One cheer for tbe mind-bogglingly fun of last week's Ultimate Campus Challenge. Anyone wondering why trios of students were Lrekking through the backwoods of campus or serenading desk staffs need not be confused any longer. A scavenger hunt of mammoth proportions, the UCC was a feat of astounding creativity that dwarfs most olher college activities events. Let's see them try that at College Park.

Hooray ... For a great, building year for SEB in which they expand­ed their officer-selection process, put on literally dozens, if not a hun­dred great events of all types and interests. Talk to your friends at other schools and ask them about college activities and you'll see just how good we have it. Three cheers for SEB; here's to another great year.

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The Littered Landscape of UMBC: A Belated Earth Day 'fribute AMBER SAMPSON

ln my e;y;pcriencc of nearly two scme:-;tcrs on !his campu~. I have come to appn:datc lhc level of cons1deration that UJVtBC students have for each other. A friend (lf mine whu transferred to nnol.her school this semester told me that the first thing she noticed wa.<. that stu­dents there don't hold doors tor each other. 'Ibis difference may sound trivial. blll it dras­tically alfccted her initial impression and tJpinion of the campus.

I have to say that even though lhe will­ingne~-. of someone chc to hold the door for you can pnwe to be more inconvenient than opening it yourself-like those times where you ac.wally have to speed up to save the pcr­~on from ..,tanding around waiting for you­it still makes for a nice atmosphere of com­mon consideration and res!"---ct. I exchange lhank-yous nnd you ·re-welcomes '' ith count­less people every day and. allhough it's not the deepest of relationships, I'm a happier pcn,on for it.

You can then imagine my dismay when. upon making my way back from the dining hall, I happen upon a Coke cup in the middle

of the !-tdewalk. What is di~turbing to me about thi~ Coke cup is not so much that it's on the grouml; ir it were ~imply lymg there I might make the lt'iswnption that. it fell out of one of the many overtlowing trash cans on campus. What disturbs me as lhe position of the coke cup: that it is full and standing erect. obviously placed purpoM:Iy on the :.idcwalk and kit there.

And this coke cup is not atom.:. I have seen remains of lunch~ left on the t,rround be.-; ide parking spaces. piu.a boxes left in the shadows beside Harbor courtyard. and icc cream cones left in front of doorways for other people to step in a ... they go home. This past week-on Earth Day-1 walked though a constant stream of wind-strewn flyers from the library all the way to my dorm. I have uouble reconciling a body of student ... who wait for strangers to hold their doorl> with such blatant inconsideration as to leave other people 10 pkk up their garhage.

It':. true that trash removal can be a prohlcm on this campus: cans arc qfl..sn over­flowing. Butlhcre is no ~hortage of them. Is it too much to ask of people to find an empty trash can, inst~'ad of placing their garbage on the ground? Sometinl(:s people think they

have the right idea and place their tr.t...,h on the !:'TOUnd right in front of n t~h can. a~ if i~ will ~tay there until collection day, instead, ll gcb kicked around and ends up in a ticld or a sidewalK. where either <;c1mcone else is forced to pick it up or it joins the innumer­able cigarette bull<; crushed into U1c land­M:apc of UMBC.

\\'hat I find equally pu1.7Jing to this contradiction of consideration~ is the appar­ent inability of honors university students to recycle (.'Orrcctly. I am consistently befud­dled by the fact that when faced with the choice of 3 holes-large square. small cir­dc. and thin slit-people will put can-. and houles in the square hole and paper in lhc circle. I'm not sure whether I'd rather believe that the students of UMBC are inc.·a­pable of shape n--cognition or just so apa­thetic that they ignore the disttnction. I hap­pen to be an avid recycler. and my heart just !-inks when I drag my ~tack of newspapers and boxes down a !light of :-.talfs to find food and pencil shavings in Lhe paper recycling container.

l might he ahle to blame bad lahcting­maybc shape vanancc isn't enough-except for the fa1..1 that blue containers speckled with

uianglcs which ~ad "aluminum only'' a1 the brim of the lkl are still full of papci and pJa..,­tic bags.

Maybe it's a prohkm of motiVation. [ have to admit that sometime.~ r feel like it's not wonh it to n.:cyclc 1f no one else docs. 1 even suspect that J)l!rhaps my rccychng is in vain and all the trash will end up in IJ1e same place aoy\\,ly--it'l> been known to happen here. But that's not a reason to give up on it.

There is in fact no rca_<;On that seemingly intelligent. con"'derdtc pt.>oplc can not make a dcd~ion to take care <.lf tltcir campus. pick up after themsclvc~. and conserve resources by r~-c)cling. Student complaint-. about trnsh col­lection and avuilability of recychng contain­ers should ccrtuinly be addressed. But if the administration provides nll the trci.Sh cans and recycling containers in the world. and s1udcnts still choose to put Coke cups on sidewalks and can.-. in squan: holes. nothing will he accom­plished UMBC swdeoL' can do better than thi\. Lcfs agree to be consbtcnl in our consid· erutions and encouragl' others to do the san1c.

Amber Sampson is u writa for the: Opinion .~ecrion ofThc Retriever Weekly. Slit• mtl)' be readrM m samJ@umbc.edu.

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Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Iraqi Gratitude AMBER SAMPSON

The tides of media reports have turned once again. The images from Baghdad of parading Iraqis, singing and dancing in the streets and raising their thumbs to the camera have been replaced by protesters waiving their fists in the air and shouting opposition. To be sure, there were opposing Iraqis at the fall of Baghdad and there are sup­portive Iraqis now, but it's clear that overall public opinion has turned against th.: U.S. in n:ccot days. Many are disappointed. aggravated, even humiliated by the entire ordeal of inter­vention.

Thss is sure to cause shock and even rescntmenl among Americans. What happened to the roses for soldiers, the .. thank you Bush" signs, the warm wel­come? Didn't our boys fight and die lor their freedom? Is th1s the thanks that we get'?

Those whll arc waiting for an American flag on every Iraqi doorstep and a welcoming smile on the faces of rising leaders arc sure to be tragically disappointed. Exiles who have cooper­ated with America arc already begin­ning to distance themselves from U.S. meetings . The Washington Post com· mented of the self-proclatmed governor of Baghdad: .. They believed Zubaidi has close tics to the U.S. government, which, they predicted. would doom h~s

chances of broad public acceptance." This may he an upsetting reality for American:.. but we don't have reason or right to be surprised or mdignant.

David lgnatiu!>. a columnist for the Washington Post, wrote in a rather prophetic article on March 20 that .. if you want to understand the problems the United States will confront in post­war Iraq, Lake a look at France . Seriously." He was pointing Lo the fact that less than a year after the French were freed from Nazi occupation by the U.S. and Britain, they were antagonizing both-a behavior which Ignatius points out persists to this day.

It shouldn't be surprising that Iraqi opinion towards the U.S. has turned even more quickly, considering the vibrant anti-Americanism so pervasive in the region and the world-wide con­demnation of America as imperial invad­er. Many pmpooents of the war thought that military intervention in Iraq. fol · lowed by a "'positive American presence" through rebuilding. would mollify anti­Amerkan sentiment in the Middle East. Whether thut will happen in the long run remains to be seen. but it certainly i-. not coming ~oon.

Ami we shouldn't ~x.pect it to, for several reasons.

The first is that this h Operation Iraqi Freedom. not Operation Iraqi Gratitude. The language of this war-the persistence that the Iraqi people have the ability and right to govern themselves,

that they arc a dignified people, that they deserve independence from oppression­has sent the message that the only reason \\'C arc engaging in military conflict h that the Iraqis lack the military capability to overthrow Saddam themselves. Iraqi sentiment can be summed up in a recent Post headline: .. Thanks for Ousting Saddam. Now Please Go Home." We said we came to bring freedom; to Ir.sq. that means freedom from us too.

This is not to say that we pull all of our forces out of Iraq immediately and leave the people to fend tor Lhcmsclvel!. We have promises yet to fulfill and dam­age to repair. Buildings are looted. national treasures are destroyed, people arc still without job:. and provisions. r raqis arc disillusion..:d by the contrast between their expectations for America and the present state of "postwar Iraq." Iraqis are voicing their disappointment and resentment. and we can not ignore their voices in favor of looking toward the greater good of freedom. We must be able to admit our failures. try to rectify them as much and as quickly as possible, and cam the faith and trust of the Iraqi people. Demanding goodwill is the work of dictators, not liberators.

In 1990. Vaclev Havel issued a famous speech to Czechoslovak society atlbe tum of lbeir velvet revolution when the people had overthrown a hated regime and faced the task of rebuilding.

"This moment contains the hope that in the future we will no longer suffer

from the complex of those who must always express thejr gratitude to someone else. It is now entirely up to us ... whether our civic. national. and political self-con­fidence will be awakened in a historically new way." He attributed much of the suc­cess of their revolution to "optimal inter­national conditjons." The crux of the coalition argument has been that inter­vention was necessary only because con­ditions for regime change did not exist within Iraq or on the global scene. H this is the case. then our goal should be to let the Iraqis rebuild a'> independently ~ possibk.

I won' l deny that I enjoyed the brief slim of thankfulness while it la~tcd . l have a newspaper clipping on my wall that features a smiling Iraqi man holding up his young son to kiss an American sol­dier. I hung it because it reminds me that my country did right by oppressed peo­ple. t tlon 't expect to see many mure pic­tures like th1s. but I can ucceptthat. What I care about for the fUiure is not that the man in the picture is smiling at an American, but that he is smiling at all. T want the hope in that man's face to stay long after the soldiers leave or the grati · tude fades . And if pro-Americanism tiz­zies in Iraq but a pro-freedom sentiment remains, I will judgl' the outcome a vic­tory.

Amber Sampson is a writer for the Opinion section o[The Retriever Weekly. She may be reached at sam3@umbc.cuu.

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Dear Editor.

Jcr my Galvan

Edit r s Noh::. Rah"\Xl Ghuma has antia!d bvoo m a pullet: state exiled trom L.i~yn. hi'i fam1ly currently lM:s m Oman.

I am \\-Tilillg lh1s lener m ~~ m the cbam that h:t5 heen ~cd in front or the mnll mad near 'n.'ll'BCe apmments 1.'hroogh all of the Ia.~;~ and cwrent sc.mc: ~ .stu

de WCl abl to driv lilt tbi5 small circle to drop oft fnends lute and mght qwckly drop heavy lo;ub; ot grpcenes or a WJ:iet~ of other actJvitJ ~ lhat the close road penruncd.

Now. ap~n.+ntly. we nre oot allowed to do dull; llx:lwvc th i su 1 purely one ()f (."'ntn,l Aboultwo \ifteks ago some pl1ys.ical plnnt workers tn.<;tallod two ~tool I'QSI$ l~l k1.-ep

poople from dnvm~ on lhlS road. NQt a day Infer. they had been mystenously remuvcd. pmbahl by some student stwnblfug by in a drunken .stupor. Now tht.")' have msmlloo lh~ ~.;ham Why you may ask? Because the small road tS a fire lnnc Thts ha.-.n tstoppcd count­less UMBC physical plant workers, police, UPS dchvcrymcn, and countless {)then; from parking there unmoleh1Ccl Apparently. this. doesn't apply to student'> Titc ~1ucstion 1 raise is. Jf 1t 1s so importl'lr\l that the lane be unblocked tor u tire Lruck to gt·l through why U(X.OS VMBC IML'lt on BLOCKING il. wub posrs r,.- a cham? In my Qptruon tt 1s far satbr to nsk havang a random car p1ukt:d on this road than to have ' ftre trut·k or urnbulance :ltud: our ide the tQIILl waJtmg IQI" d1e m.-mc employee WJtll keys to get there What if 11 s at 3 AM?

Who do lhc cmcrgalcy services ctmtact ihen'' And if the responst! is tJuu they would ~im­ply c:ut the chain. what purpose does it serve in the fust place?

This L'i where I see the eotire issue • ooe of oontrol af tt wasn t, there \VQUid be no chain, smce tbcre JS no 1ogicaJ way to say it is safel- to have lbe ENTIRE rood impeded maher lban the ~of a 'small' part being blocked. I demand tp hear tb: offiCial n:ason the UMBC physical plam used to so dangmlus}.y block lhi enbl\! 1QJld when an ~ 11\o"OJiable toad Lfl so obYiously sake and more reasQOable

Mark Miller x27264

I m wridng to urge lhe SQA SeDate to vote AGAINST tn\peachment of PJtsidehl Shockley 1 am ap[ICI1k:d d1IU a f~ ~with pernouaJ grudges would abuse lbcir power m $®h a~ The~~·~ Shockley seem to be bas<:d em tlpe<.'Ulalitm wnb .ao real evidence 10 badUJ~1lup; Qd'l« Charges ban:lly ~~teD\ like nnpoacbable Offens­es I don't believe u IS a c:rimi:HD ta1t to ~ n:i¢idUa. in faCt t would etJc:oontge iL .JU8t bec:auSc )'ott may DOl: agree WJdl ~be said does aot mean tba1 bo was acung maliciously 8JXI 8houJd be JI:DiDW.d fiJlim oftke; J liJ$0 find it odd that PmsidciJl Sbocktey IS being acautd m ~ wbca ... of the ·'attacks· are against him. Throt,tJb dli8 !iBIDC

loP; )'C*could ~ -Jlopse: members who ba:ougb1 up~ charges. 6a fbc ead • ~ wjlJ ~ wilh cbc elecliQD boiani and fiQd lbc ~ wkhoot

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De.ar Editor,

~ar Editor.

o cncourngmg stu c tis o Thank you r ... ,r mal..u g. nc

So rm waJk.ing to cla s on day to the Fine Ans building (which IS a pam enough as is) whca a fly r pro lrumtng rhc Sntamc patemtt) ot our prc.sidcn1 11:

shoved m m.y face Jgnonng it. 1 try t.J std step the person \\ hp's pwdlmg this propaganda. but lh~ 1 huge tublc set tn the tum to the Fine ArU; butldtng loaded w1th nnu-Bu:;h post ~ m rc fly rs aui,l crude drawmgs made. as farm I can tell. 10 Mu::roson. PaUll)

Now. lhere are a lot nf bad thmgs that 1 would say about Bush- hat ht'!'o a cnmplete moron, that he like war a httle l(lO much and Lhat hh. nii-oon~r. ahvc politics are ru n ng aJt I v I o dome.<;lt pohcv most notably the ~.o>conumy and tbe environment ul c umn hJm tub he "Son o Satan" ts a btl of a trct h Best des I don t hk be mg. bw.:~)ed whil I m on a schedule and trying to gn to class 11 s one lhing to $ l up a stand out bl the w.ty of lhc traffic n(\w, but tt s somelhmg else to Ill ck everyone s way nnd bol,l us up wasttnB vur tunc: as we try to go to ~;las~ w tlhoul bc,m lale

So. Mr LaRouche. please JO:itruCt your followers to scl up shop somewhere less obstt'Udtve Hkc the root of the hbrnry. or {lCrhaps m the RAC'" lnlldoor pooL

Jonathan Rayne

write for

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May9 Come to TheBeltieuer Weeklg's Funfest on the Commons Terrace during tree hour on Wednesdav 4/30 tor a chance to win a pass (good lor two) to the adVance screening.

Passes and prizes are available while supplies last. No purchase necessary. Umil one per person. Employees of Sony Pictures and The Retriever Weekll and UMBC are not ellolble.

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INVITE YOU AND A GUEST TO AN ADVANCE SCREENING OF

"Once again1 Neil L'aBute proves himself one of

the most literat1. penetrating and da kly

humorous direct rs." • Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUH•TIMES

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Come to Tile Retriever Week/J's Funfest on the commons Terrace during tree hour on Wednesdav 4/30 tor a chance to win a pass (good tor two) to the advance screening.

Passes and prizes are available while supplies last. No purchase necessarv. Umil one per person. Emplovees or Focus Features and The ReltltJIIer Wsekty and UMBC are not eligible.

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A week set aside to acknowledge and highlight the pl:;enomenallev~

and have matzy reasons to celebrate, appreciate a1't.d applaud all o..f

faculty a1zd staff at UMBC are grat~fulfor y ur accomplishments

Meyerhoff Parents' Association Seilior Recognition Reception May3 3pm Albin 0. Kuhn library, Seventh Floor This annual reception allows parents and Meyerhoff staff to recognize, celebrate and applaud the achievements of Meyerhoff stu­dentS graduating from UMBC.

24th Annual Student Recognition Day May4 1:30pm University Center Ballroom This campus-'Wide ceremony honors seniors (and some juniors) chosen by their depart­ments to receive awards in recognition of their outStanding academic achievementS and their service to the UMBC. Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Deans of Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and Social Work.

UMBC Student Leadership Awards Banquet May5 6pm UC Ballroom A campus-wide recognition program designed to celebrate the significance of student leader­ship and involvement at UMBC. Sponsored by the SGA, GSA, and the Division of Student Affairs.

Annual Hillel of Greater Baltimore Student Recognition Awards May6 7pm Beth Israel Congregation, Owings Mills Hillel of Greater Baltimore will recognize the achievements and contributions of outstanding student leaders involved with Hillel. These awards reflect contributions in the areas of lead­ership, service, learning, and ongoing commit­ments to Jewish life on campus.

Resident Student Association End·of.the-Year Reception May6 8:30pm - lOpm The Commons, Skylight Room This reception is to celebrate and recognize all RSA and Hall/ Apartment Council members for their hard work and volunteerism over the past academic year.

Greek Awards Banquet May7 5-7pm The Conunons, Skylight Room The Greek Community will be honoring the success of the fraternities and sororities at UMBC.

Conunons Administration Student Staff Appreciation May9 11 :30am-1:30pm The Commons, Cabaret

Residential Ufe Banquet May9 6-Spm Sheraton BWI Invited guests are asked to join us in honoring Residential Life's student staff at this year's ban­quet, "Up All Night." Awards recognizing out­standing individual and community-wide achievementS will be presented, and the close of another great year will be celebrated!

Omicron Delta Kappa Induction May 10 UCBallroom 9:3oam UMBC's ODK, a national leadership honorary sodety, is excited to induct the newest class selected for their exceptional leadership, service and achievement.

Career Development Center May 12 11:30am-lpm CDC Conference Room

The CDC is having a thank you party for our office assistantS to show our appreciation for all of the hard work they have done.

Student Appreciation Banquet hosted by the Offices of Admissions, Financial Aid, and Schobttships May 13 4pm Albin 0. Kuhn Library, Seventh Floor A recognition ceremony for invited students who have assisted in the university's enrollment management areas.

Student Government Association Celebration and Inauguration Mayl3 7pm Albin 0. Kuhn Ubraty, 7th Floor SGA will honor its outgoing members and induct into office the newly elected SGA mem­bers for 2003-2004.

Graduate Student Association End--of-the-Year Cookout May13 6-llpm The Commons, Gtbaret Join GSA in celebrating the end of the year. We are grilling out (and yes, we will have veggie burgers too). Come eat, drink, sing a song, and relax before finals!! *Proper identification required for entry (ages 21 & up).

Student Events Board May13 8:~10:30pm SEB will have an end of the year celebration to acknowledge the tremendous work they have done this year. They have done great work and have offered high quality programs all year; they deserved to be celebrated.

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beir efforts and great u 01 k May JJ uee e e a a renzi der t/Jat

r.d kfzotv tl1at UMBC is a b ter. st,~onge cotn nu1zity because o YOU!

Celebration of Office of Student Life Student Staff (Office Assistants, Marketing and Technology Interns, & Peer Mentors) May 14 12~Jpm

The Commons. Suite ~36 We have had a very busy and productive year and we couldn't have done it without our won­derful student leaders. Many thanks for all of your hard work!

Office of Diversity & Social Justice Initiatives May 14 1-3 pm TI1c Commons, Suite 2810 We will have an Appreciation Celebration for all office assistanlS, 3BS Mentors and program interns. This is to recognize all students for their dedication. emhusiasm and excellent work this year.

McNairs Scholars/Fellows Dinner May 14 5:30pm Albin 0. Kuhn Library, 7th Floor The achievements of Lhe McNairs scholars and fellows will be recognized. And, all mentors will be saluted for their great work too!

Judicial Board Dinner Location and Time To Be Determined The Justices and staff of Studem Judicial Programs celebrate a successful year and rhe graduation of its seniors at an end-of-the-year dinner.

All eLJf!1lts are by invite on~y, except the M~y Graduates Day UV!fe all graduatt11g students at

Uil!BC are invited to attend. For more informa­tion abaut these programs. please cmllact tbe specific office hosting the euent or Patty Perillo, Office of Student L{(e. at perillo@umbc.edu or 410.455.3462.

GRADUATES DAY I MAY7

All Day Events centered in The Commons

This is a day set aside to celebrate and honor our grad­uating undergraduates and graduate students. We are very proud of you and your accomplishments and want­ed to recognize your achievements. You are a part of our UMBC family! A sample of the day includes:

• Division of Student Affairs Breakfast (8:30-1 0:30am)

• May Graduates Fair with Office of Student Life, Alumni Relations, Career Development Center, University Health Services. Chevy Chase, SGA, GSA. UMBC Graduate School, Professional Education and Training, Athletics, Honor Societies ( 12-3pm)

• Presidents' Toast ( 1-2pm/must RSVP to alum@umbc.edu)

• Chapter ofYoung Networking Social (6-Spm)

• Gifts from offices at the Fair and discounts from the Wood Company and the UMBC Campus Bookstore

Look mto Devlyn s C ystat ball 22 L n 1e W st ta es the oad t free om 23

The Brothers Quay will show you the way 23 "ld.en i It ·s a k 1 e 26·

Trombones, Trumpets, Saxophones, and All That Jazz OLIVER BARANCZYK

The horns hlnstcd. the drums crashcd. :md Lhc energy soared Juring Lh~· UMBC Jan Band'" spnng concert . ln ... orpOrtlling n lliversc ~clcc· tion of piece:., the Jazz Bnntl. led by Jari Villanueva. dts­phl) ed ib enthusiasm nnd talent lJuoughout the pc1 formance.

The Jau Bnnd iii com­prised of numerous members of UMBC's Down nntl Dirty Dawg Bancl. heard loud and clear at every mens nnd women's home basketball -game dunng the

winter. Dressed in black. the

ensemble blew through a :;ct of nine songs. which spanned scv eral genres. with intlividual pieces dappling in upbeat .swing. hip latin. and rc,ck-innu­cnced jazz. The performance added a biL of vancty h) ulilo~­ing the silky smooth \Oicc of Carolyn Mele on the Jn:z Band's version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow.'' a song from the das!'ic filrn "The Wizard of Oz.· The band utilized c:c\ier'Jl soloist1- Within each song. demon:.lraling the depth or the band.

One p trticular highlight of the perfc1rmancc remains tim 10-minutu. medley ot songs comrosod b>· Duke Ellmgroo. Pre laced by Vsllanucva as being a .. , cry di fricu lc piece:· the band ere.~tcd a distinctly mysle­IIOUS mood throughou1 the medlc) with iL.' interludes hct\\ cen song~ thnL htghlighred the use of the pmno, pe.rcus­-;ion, and saxophones. The three psecc~. ..In u Septimenl:tl Mood," ''Mood lndtgo," and "Don ·t Mean a Thmg If It Doesn't llavc Thal Swing," allcrnalcd between somber ~ound~capes to buoyant sec--

Politics At No Extra Charge: Paul Chan's Multi-Dimensional Artwork

RICHARD MeNEY Retriever H~ekly Stqj[Wnte1

For the last .~evcral week!.. images of Iraq have monnpoliic(! the news. Video of burrung build­ings, oombs exploding, and soldiers wilh raised gun~ have become Iraq'~ representation in American e)es. These pictures are pumped daily into our homes and over all ol them is always :;ome joumahst"s voice telling us what we are looking at. P..tul Chan's vidt.'O nn lillned in Iraq speak.<.: for ttc;clf by displaying lhc lives Iraqis lead: the lives not shown on teiC\ ision.

Tntcr,\ns and the VisHing Ar1isl.':i Lecture Series pr..:scntt.-cl a lecture by New York City l\rtisl Paul Chan. A full UtviBC Fine Am lc;c· ture ball listened to Chan. who is a 2003 Rockefeller Arts Fellow and teaches video and l11m at the University of Pcnnsylvnnia, discuss several pieces nf h•~ anwork.

.. , do dtgil.al work," said Chan sitting on the oacf.;; of a chair. dressed in all black ~ve for brmm pointy ~hoes that only an ru1ist could pull off. He continue~

·'whtch bao;icall) means l make shit on computers."

Tite shil tlle artist rcfcrl\ lli

include~ digital vidoo. new media artwork and interactive media. Chan has dual intcre.sts in politic::. and art. As a result, much of his art­work has political implications.

From Dec. 14 to )an. 14. Chan lived in Baghdad lilming the people and tltc cullun::. lie traveled to Iraq as a mcmhcr or the lraq Peace Team. a group iniliakd by Voices in the Wilderness. an independent intcmnlional campni~n that since 1996 has attcmptl·d to end the ceo­nomic sanctions and warfare against the people of Iraq. Members of Voices include leachers, artists

and church workers who live in ll"'d'J at dillc~t times documeming Lhe lives of lrnqi citizens. 'fbe Iraq Peace Toam began in Sept. 2002 in an ancmp1 to prevent a U.S. attack on Iraq throogh the use of non-\ill­lcnt actions. Toda} lhc team remains in Irnq recording the Iraqi cttizens· experien~:es throughout the war and occupation \\ilh lhc goal of increasing awareness of the :c.itua­tion.

'This is too tragic and woeful of a Lime to be remembered onl) through OI>-ed pieces and human

interest stories.'' Chan said ... Voices in the Wildcmi:S~ knew that artists· and writers and )101!ts had to be involvct~ had to bl: on I be ground to remember what is happening down there bcca~c \\C can't count on the joumalislS und !he historian5 and the Pcnragon. l was really touche¢ I wa.' reatly mu\ed by this idea that a political group ,.,.as lhioking aes­thetically."

Chan was so moved that be signed up and lived in Baghdad for

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Galen Zook I Resrie\er We.:kly Staff

Moved to Create: Paul Chan documented life in Iraq during his year-long visit.

tions of all-<>ut fun . Continuing wuh the eclec­

tic song sckc1ion, tbl· haud played ·•Mere), t\lcrcy, M~!rcy,'' a song filled wiLh lively piano and guitar ~olos, u11lizing 11

sound and chord prugrcssion Lh<ll related the great influem·c of rock ·n· roll rhythms tQ the jazz genre 111 the 1"150s. 1:rom "Mercy. Mercy, Mercy," tlte band continued its energetic roll imo "St. Thomas," a wdl­known latin/rock pic~.:e com­posed by Sonny Rollins. The perform::mce ol 'St. Thomas­hint.ed c~t the sur[lric;e~ in More for the audience before the

night' s conclusion. Tlte rinal two songs. ''Sing,

Sing. Sing,•· and "Spring ot P~arls:· had not only the mcm­bci" or the hand keeping the thythm, but the audience as well. Descrihed by Villanueva U'> ''A signatl!re song not only with the Jazz Ensemhle, hut also the Pep Band:· ''Sing, i'\iug, Sing,"' written b~ Louie Prima, allowed tltc band to real­ly let too e and have ~orne run. Slightly confusing: al first. the crowd saw the mcmher~ of th\! hand dtspersc inlo the audtencc

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Laundry Room Etiquette for the Socially Impaired

DEVLYN FENNELL Retriever Weekly Staff W'titer

TI1~:rc seem to be an awful lot of people omlherc who h<Nt.'ll'tacluc as ro whru. basic laundry n10m etiquette is. You know who you are. Y{)lJ • rc the ones who seem tn tlunk U1c laundry room belongs solely to you. You're the ones who act as if il's just an extension of your hou..'>(! or apartment. never mind lhm the rc:;t of us have to usc iL too. Clearly you need to have the do's and don'ts laid out for you.

1. Do takD your clothes out of the wa.-.;hing machine and dryer promptly when U1ey are done. It's incretlibly rude to put them in and then to wan­<.ler off rutd nol mme buck lor hours and hours. ll1at space you're so neg· ligenlly hog,_gjng can bl: a hot com· modlty, especially in the smalh:r laun­dry rooms.

2. Don't come to the l;~unury

room an.d fill up evcJY :-.ingle WJ.c.;hing machine or dry1.>r v.ith your clotl1cs . If you do have thaL mm1y loodc; to do. s-pace them OUt enough ~ that you're not the only one v. ho get-. to use the laundry macbinL.., Pilling up every single ~hinc when others might want to use them 100 ;,. very !;C(f<cn­lcred Do I ha\e to remmd you once more that you're nO\ the only person in the univcn;e with launiliy'?

3. Do dean out the lint tray in the dryer when you're done with it. Okay, lh.i.s one isn't n.'> big a deal of the oth· crs. But it's :;tilt just the polite thing to do. L!aving wad' or ful.l ixhind for lhe person after you won't be appre­ciated. Especially if iL gels on that per­son's wet d01he.s.

4. Don't open the dryer door lo see how much long~r someone else's clothes will be until they dry. lhcn not restan the dryer. u· you t.lon't n:-push lhe little sUI11 button. the drying time lhar person has paid for goes by with­out any drying acrually happening.

'rou &\!ally shouldn't he opening up tht· door 10 a dryer tluu·s gomg any­way. Just wait patiently until it's done. But if you absolutely must open the- ill) er door to check, at least Lry not lo be an inconsiderate a.-;s about it

5. Do be neat if you are taking someone·<; clothes out of !he dryer for them bcc'.tu.-.e they're not there when iL stops. Sometimes delays ol a COO· pie minutes happen, and a perron mighl. take a few minutes to get to the launchy room. lCs annoying. but it's not like it":. holl.fS. so i.t's also untkr­st.andahle. No doubt everyone d~)e<; it occasional]). But if you· re in a hurry and need to tnovc their clothing, be neat about it. If it's in the wa~hlng machine, put it in lhe dryer. You don't have to start t.he dryer. just put it in lhl"re. You could also leave the iliyc1 door open w mat they'll see where their clothe.' are when they come dm\'n. rr thl'ir clothes are in the dryer. putlhem neatly on a dean surface on· to the :-ide. Or. if they've !eli thc1r laundry ba-:l..-ct in the room. put them in there. Folding the cloth~ for them is clearly not necessary and would be going wa) above and beyond the call of duty. But don't dump lhem on the noor.

ll1cse are the basics of laundry room cliqueu~ .None of them arc anytlting that \\OUidn't become obvi­ous to anyone who stopped to think al:x>ut it for even a minute. Provtding of coLJISe that tl1ey aren't completely self-absorbed NOl folkn-..ing the.-.c standard laundry room operating pro­cedures will just piss everyone else oiT. Then we will be fon:ed to run you down and smacl< you with our wet undcrweat that didn't dry because you opened our dryer door and didn't rcstan iL But since you know the rules now. you should be safe as long as you foUow them. You're welcome.

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When I Grow- Up By:Aihson Houseworth

AIM!

There 1511(1 doubt m my mmd dutt AOL Instant Messenger ha.-. made me a bcuctper­son. I know everything about everyone; I llltlgh out loUd: 1 ay: I have hol shades. a cute "ink and a fabUlous halo I wear every ~ I go out drinking. l run a&.'e. on top of thmgs and can lalk to s~ people al Qnce ffc; amazing.

fi1Slal1t Messenger has !aUght me bow LO mulli-taSk. I am cwrcntl) lalking to three people as I write this ooiWlUl Last night I talked to at lcal>1 five people while I wroo: a ten-page paper. I think nwlti-taskiilg is very inlp(XUDL m today's world You can flip lx.ugers and a.<ik \\wid you like fries with rhal · at the same bmc:. You can walk and elk.""'· gwn r get dn:s.'iCd, cat. dry my ~ read. and mstant message all at lhc same ttme. I have become so mlll"ketabbe 1 can•t !t1and lt.

AIM has 'Tn8de me a kind-hearted ooul. This morning I ·woke up and t'eOO on an aw :> ~I! that my best friend had a rough ugh lasl mght. I was abl to express m ...::otKem m.~ly Away mcs­sa.I!CS how me who 10 buy h.ecr (\lf', who r~d.<. a hug. \\ hich rno~ Je I could walcll when :md wht.:re. There 1s no bcUer Y.'ll> to hnd out hoY. a pcn;oo ts doing th:tn LO read their away mess.'lge.

Wntmgawny messages ha!. madcme a t>eucr person. My mend Eric can't stand i1 \hen he oome.s 0\er bcfQfC Wt! g' out

bcc.:ause rt tah>s me n1 lea.'>l ltv~,; nnnutcs LO

wntc a good away message. Tius i& ot C>JtiTl;C, after 1 tm thought nbout tt lor lhc entire hour beforehand. whde 1 \\it! getting rend) I write the messa~ edit at. and five mumtes Jater Erk's 1tdnn to go drink tmd )dling ut me I can Lleave until my away message i" insand) clevt.TIIlll.l grammatical­ly correct

I once copied and Jmstc;d a nuna-coo­..,'CTS31Joo I bad walh someone mto my J'IT}'

file. He wid or he .lovlo(J me and that I run ·'buena: I asked him why He told me at's hecnusc I ·~ust am·· and I have "bitchin' away messages.'' I cncd 1 was so flnUcred. That moment will forever be the greatest moment of my life.

My profile changtl;, on av\!nlge, every seven hours. MOStly at will anclude quoces from my friends who tell me how awesome I am. It's like lhcrapy. Tht,.-y bhng over their s•lly little message. I smile my ycllow smile. ctti-e. ctrl-v it mto my profile and my sclf­l!:>lCCffiiS raised 155. I mn OllC of the most IIJTOgartt people I know somctuncs, mostly because of my profile. 1 have hren told it s

the ''horne~c of profiles." It 1s my <hlty to uphold the bucno-ness of my profile. Agmn, we edit at so u s grammatically l'OITCCI. If J could WC:lr a t shirt around an day with my profile on at, I would be lhe happiest person on 1he planet.

Right now my profile has a countdown to graduation and a warning that if you are not cool I don t want to deal w · th xou m the next Jew weeks. Every morning I go mto at and subttact a day. I usually ay. OK. that's a lie: f m usually drinking. cotfee. Anyway this religiOUS dlanginao.Of-dte-profile helps me remernbtt what ha" beer~ so unporumt over t:be last four yem. Friend'>, lazy days. late rugh!A. laughter away messages .

l don t know wball'm going to do with­out AIM when I graduate. Most srudcflts who will be walking the Walk of Doom an May 22 have been thinking about how ~ will tinana: u trip 10 Europe. pay off their IOIJJlS they factor car msurancc. rent. water bills into their OOdget. I m setting aside a large chunk of money for my Corncast. Cable high-speed Internet hlU I wonder af nl)l away rncs.s.age.." wdl change dnsmulically, what my proftlc: wtll come Ul sa~ I nm romplctel~ losmg m) mind I there a kls.ing-yoor-mind emottec.w1'>

I .hang out wtth a 1(){ of people who don t

use AIM. I see sometlnng :.~ial m Utcm. 1lley arc more rcla:~ed. in-nme will• the world and have H general sen"~e of hapro -hitr ptllCS.'> c;i~ Lhcy have ch0$Ctl to avotd thil> parocullir technological fon:::e .. The} nllllre me snulc nn the tllSI~ make me ·wantlo s.hp off my shoes nod OO\'Ct' myself m patchoub 011 Then I n:ali7.c they're CI31).

HO\\ can )OU noL v.'ant to know every one's buMncs.'> nil tbe trme? How can you not want to k'Cep m UJUCh with old friend.-. so c:a.-;

tly? How would you have m-cr become mend" Wtlh That Really Cute Frat Guy Who U~ m Your Bualding had you not gotten hi'> screen name from someone and staned stalk­mg h1m'>! ll s preposterous! GOO sa~ li!U"C souls who d(Jfl t U.'ie AIM. What a sad sad life

When I grow up I will al\\'llys wear my lovely halo. smde my big-tooriied gnn, h."Cp up with my friends, have high self -e.strem

and puy my higb-~-pecd cable Internet bill on lime

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(March 21 - April20) - Lin (Sept. 24 Oct. 23) Ride (0 cla.<ts on a ~idesaddlc btcyclc nus week your c:ar will break down

th1s week. We pronuse not to l:augh. m front of a very. very. very expensive parkmg meter. Got quarters?

(Aprill1 -May 21J ta Scorpio (OCt 24 - Nov. 22) Someone has broken into y1>ur

house and hidden all your pens and pen· cils. The many fruitless searches this will re.'lult in will drive you completely nul'>.

For your ncl\t birthday your family will help you start that teapot collccuon you've never wanted. Too bad you don't drink tea.

-Gemini (May 22- June 21) ~ Sagittarius (Nov. 23- Dec. 21) I am secretly pomling and laughing Mnlc.,.olent kittens arc gomg to

at you. sneak into your room and dismantle your stereo equipment. Awwwww .... how cute.

ecancer (June 22- July 23) 0 Capricorn (Dec. 22 - Jan. 20) You will drink mass quant1Ues of

Spnte this week. So much m fact that on Fnday you will C);plodc.

No\\ I \:an hear lhe voice~ an your head. Tum th~:m down!

(July 24- Aug. 23) 'f6 Aquarius (Jan. 21 - Feb. 19) \'(Ju will spend all day Saturday

cleaning up biLo; of a fncnd who explod­ed the nighl before lrom too much Sprite.

Someone ha.; sabotaged your ham­mer so 11 will hit you on the thumh the next ltmc ~ou use it. Pad.: enra band· aids.

Vwgo (Aug. 24- Sep. 23) e Pisces (Feb. 20 - Mar. 20) You're not nn ~ni~t; you•re a doodler

on n large sc.ale. The re.~t of us are ttred of pretending vtltcrwise.

I hn"Wc cursed you so all your light bulbs wdl bum out at one Lime. NO\\ I am cackling in glee.

Chan Shows Reality In Iraq from POLITICS, page 20

a month filming the Iraqi people. The piece be i~ in lhc process of editing v.ill probably be titled. ''Baghdad in No Panicular Order'' and is a moorage of scene.'> filmed in :.ingle chan­nel digital video.

··11 is amazmg how determined lhings are when you watch it on the news." Chan said. ''When you watch video footage or stills someone is always lalking over it as if they are telling you how to look. It is refreshing that! didn't do any interview~ or I didn'l want to show any talking heads.''

Indeed. in the clip~ Chan showed. the images spoke for lhcm~clvcs. In one scene. a man covering his head and face with a red tur­han stands near a beat-up yellow car while the beautiful singing of the Islamic call 10 prayer filb the air. The ~'Cnc followmg shows water 'Pra}ing oul of a small holl! in a pipe on a Baghdad l>trcd. The sound.s of nearby traffic and the sprinkling wah .. -r are the only sounds heard. Following the scene are clo~c-ups on the twitching fuce of a monkey dreaming in a cuge tn lhc lobby of the holel \\-here Chan sta) cd. There were also ~encs of twin girls dancing and olhcr children smiling. seeming­ly without worries. Another scene show~ the outdoor book market in Baghdad where piles of books sil on the sl.rccl. 'l11c w;nd blow:. the pages so thatlhey look I ike lhc \\ ings of birds. The video ends w1lh female Engli..,b majors aa Baghdad University singing.

Much of the work Chan showed was political. In another piece entitled, ··RE: TIIE_OPERATION," Chan imaginl.!s George W. Bush\ adminiMmtion were soldiers in the war against terrorism. The project began

when Cha.n made desktop replacement icons depicting Bu~h's administration a:. wounded soldiers. The idea evolved into a series of video portraits in which each member of tltc administration reads a letter written home to a loved one over digital snapshots of their involvement in the war.

The final piece Chan showed was a digi· tal in.;talJation piece entitled, "Happines.'­(finally) nfter 35.000 years of civilizalion:· The piece. which has been displayed in sever­al museums, is an animation project that com­bines the drawings of eccentric anist Henry Dargcr with the writings of Utopian ~~x:ialist Charles Fourier. ln the museum installation lhc ••nimntion is projected onto a green tran!tluccnt fahrie hung in the center of a room. The l!nd result is a strange hypnl.ltic animation that combines and updates the two men's utopian view:. and artistic tcchniqu~. The colorful animation shows m<my young girb on a gm.~y. flower-filled, rolling l,md· scape running, flying, caring gF.tSs and goinE to lhc bathroom. Eventually a group of men in suits go to y.~.u- with the girls. hut in lhc end the girls prevail and kill all of the men. TI1c combination ol absurd images and the audio track or sounds taken from nat.ure ami girb laughing and play.ng creates a hypnotic expe­rience that can only be d~cribcd as strnng\!.

Chan !.'aid he want<> his an to incorvuratc idea'> of freedom and no judgment. llc also believes lhat poliucs and an oficn do nQt mtx.

..One of the reasons I am in art is because I want to &urrounl.l myself wilh intcn:>e peo­ple.'' Chan said. "When art doesn' t do it lor me. I jump over to politics. and certainly there are intcnhl! JX.'Ople in politic~:·

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anothertllne by ryan bloom

The Brothers That. Are Quay

Once upon a lime there Lived two brothers; identical twins named Stephen and Timolhy Quay. The two lads grew up in Norristown. Pennsylvania and began their higher education at the Philadelphia College of Art. Dissatisfied or discouraged-nobody knows for sure-the pair soon transferred to London's Royal College ot Art. ln lhc early 70's. the duo began work m a stop­motion practice that would soon bring them widespread recognition and acco­Jades in th~ world of animation.

Stop-motion animation is a tech­nique used to bring inanimate objects to life. The process involves taking still pictures, and in between each pic­ture. moving the object. puppet. etc in small 1ncrements. When combined, every '2.4 pictures will conjure the illu­sion of seconds worth of movement. This was the way many great ntms. such as the original King Kong. were produced.

Stephen and Timolhy Quay were influenced by !he "'ork of master stop­motion ammator Jan Svankmajer. Many famiiJar elements from his work, such as harsh colors and grimy textures. can be found throughout the works of lhe Brothers Quay. Tbe films of Svankmajer also often carry similar themes and techniques to those pro­duced by the Quays. What is most excit­ing about the relationship between the works of the Brothers and those of Svankmajer is how lhe Brothers have managed to take what wac; fust pio­neered by Svankmajer and bring it to the next level. Titey've arguably made better and more fluid what was already an overly impressive set of works.

In 1980, for U1eir film ''Nocturnia Artificiaha.'' the Brothers won great enough recognition to allow them the opportunity to establish Koninck Studios in England. There they would begin production on the seeds of what would eventually make up a slrangely beautiful catalog of lilms. By 1993 the Quays had no less than nineteen com­plete shorts under their belt, wllh their feature ckbut, Institute Benjamcnta. sil­

ting just around the corner. While many in the commercial

industry have copied their style. today it's not just imitators of the Brothers Quay who find themselves dipping into the commer.:ial pool. Although there is no vasiblc credit given (onscreen at least). the Brolhcrs ha\'e put together television advertisements for Coca-Cola. Nikon. MTV, Round Up. Slurpee. the Partnership for a Drug Free America and most recendy for the Fox Sports network; quite a collection for a pair that so obviously shuns nor­mal means of publicity.

Most recently the Brothers Quay finished their film "In Abstenlia" and produced four new short films lhat highlighted a special show that took place at the Tate Modem in London just this past April 16th. For a long time it was very difficult to get ahold of any Quay material, but t:hanks to DVD technology we now have avail­able a good portion of their work on a single disc. lf you are a fan of stop­motion or any complex animation al all, do yourself a favor and check these Brothers out.

Ryan Bloom can be reached at rbloom2@umbc.com

This ''Road'' Well-Traveled, but. Worth Revisiting

R. ERIC THOMAS Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff

Listening to Lizzie West's debut CD. "Holy Road: Freedom Song" one gets the feeling that one has heard it all before. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. West's throaty voice and Sheryl Crow-meets-Catie Curtis songs recall a great many breezy. guitar-driv­en albums. but in the end. the completed project i$ some­thing altogether new. West's voice, which is quite reminis­cent of Natalie Merchant and Delores 0' Riordan . lead singer of The Cranberries, can go from carefree and Wting, as on the up-tempo ''Dusty Turnaround" to melancholy and haunting, as on the folksy ''Monkey Back Blues."

some of the navel-gazing abstruseness that sometimes envelops new folk female singers like herself, while also side-stepping cloying saccharine sweetness in her lyrics. anolher unfortunate trademark of similar artists.

Indeed, West's lyrics arc probably the best aspect of ''Holy Road." West sites Leonard Cohen and Walt Whitman as influences and with bon mots like "Man as

As much as West's versa­tility works to her benefit, it makes her style hard to dassi­fy and her voice less distinc­tive than it deserves to be. One is constantly recalling singers

Courtesy of Warner Brothers

of yet is half grown ... he is all leaves and roots without a sign of stem in sight'' from the soulful "Prayer" one can see evidence of that. Each of the 13 songs on West's CD proud­ly exhibits a different style and tone, in both words and lyrics-all by the artist her­self. From one track to t:he next she can go from old time gospel fervor to a straight up rock and roll song without missing a beat. Holy Soul:

Songstress Lizzie West makes a strong and memorable debut with "Holy Road." Though her sound may

West croons tunes on her latest cd.

from Merchant to Wendy Matthews and even, a few times, Bjork. Still, West is no imitator, and in t:his album she proves that she's able to compete for herself. She avoids

recall a variety of similar female artists, one notices that each of them, from Natalie Merchant to Catie Curtis, has been qUiet far too long. Perhaps there's room on the path for one more.

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and meander through the Recital HaU while the backbeat continued to set the tone. With a sudden explosion of brass. the crowd was filled with the pounding of the horns from the cleverly positioned musicians standing on the seats. walking down the aisles. and congregating on stage. Although "Sing. Sing, Sing," did not prove to be the finale of the concert.

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Ophelia was in class when the reali1.ation suddenly swept over her. She had come to tern1s wilh being cheated on. with being dumped, but not with the fact that her relationship with Derek was actually over. Pcrmanenlly.

She sucked air in through her teerh and tightened her list around her pen. Who was she going to cat breakfast with'? NoV~' there wa~ no one to a~k her how her day was, or give her a mas­sage when she felt stre:.sed.

In the pa."t two week~ since she'd found out about Derek's inlidelit}. she had slept very little. Ophelia took com­fort io late night television, shows like " Iron Cher· and reruns or "Fraternity Life." At 3:30 a.m., it always felt very nice to know she Vla!>n't alone. The warm glow of her television reassured her of that.

But then she was alone. Sure, she had her fnend~. she had class. but Derek had been there around the clock. Sleeping alone wa5> lhe worst. It had taken forever to get used to lining two bodies in the tiny university beds. but once she had, she couldn't sleep with­out him. There was just too much room and she always felt cold.

At the from of the room. Ophelia's professor lectured on the Civil Rights Movement. something all American Studies professors seem to love talking at length about. Ophelia suddenly felt very small. in the leciUre hall. !.ur­rounded by a hundred students who knew who they were and who they were eating dinner with. She couldn't think anymore.

"Excuse me. Sorry." she hissed as she climbed out of her seat. back pack in Low. and walked towards the exit. People stared at her incredulously but she kept moving. The door creaked open loudly and she emerged into the sunshine outside.

Ophelia threw her duffel bag onto her bed and began shoving clothes into il. begging herself not to cry again.

"What arc you doing'!" Chelsea shrieked. Ophelia looked up. sur­prised. She hadn't heard her best friend come in.

"Jesus )'OU scared me.'' she replied. ''I'm going home for the week­end."

Alone

Chelsea crossed her arms. "Urn. no you're not."

"Yeah. Chcls. I am." Chelsea threw the duffel bag on

the floor. "No, you're not. Look it's Quadmania tomorrow. You're not going home."

Ophelia realized she'd almost for· gotten Quadmania entirely. Why did it matter? Everyone was just going to get ridiculo~ly drunk and pao;s out all over campus. Derek never had wanted to do anything at Quadmania except hide out in his room and watch TV all day. Naturally. he'd alway ... just jomed him without a second thought.

"Look. you know what?'' Chelsea said. interrupting Ophelia's thoughts. "You need to slop feeling !>orry for yourself. And I don'l mean to be rude or insensitive. but it's getting a liule old."

Ophelia opened her mouth to protest.

"'Like just because you have to be singk nO\\ doesn't mean it's the end of the world! Stop being such a bab>. You're just afraid to get to know any­one else. But you real ly don't know anyone here, except me. your room­mate. and Derek's friends.'' Tears of frustration welled up in Chelsea's eyes. "'And you know what else? I thought maybe now that this was all over I'd finally get some time to spend with my best friend where I come first. Not him. Because he's such a dick and you finally know it. But no. he's still coming first even though he's not a pan of your life anymore. Because you're !cuing him."

Chelsea and Ophelia stared at each other in silence. Angry comcback.s and defensive retorts rose in Ophelia's throat. But she knew Chelsea was right. About everything.

Chelsea turned to leave but Ophelia grabbed her arm. "Wait. How much are Quadmania tickets'?"

Chelsea beamed. "I bought you one already." Ophelia laughed and they hugged.

"Come on. we gotta get to the liquor store!'' Chelsea shouted sudden­ly. "Before they run out!'' Ophelia shook her head and grabbed her purse.

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... I've been waiting for something: to sec the Foo Fighters live in concert! Don't wannabe your monkey wrench, but the Foos unfortunatdy arcn' 1

booked for the irntm•diate urea. Their closest show for the time being i1> at the Patnot Center in Fairfax, VA. so .. this b a call:" start your traveling early to avoid the lctl~l traflic. Th\! highly­manic Tro11splrJtW oren at 7:00. TM•

Thursday. May I What is it Good For '? A1J you activi!-ls t)'P\!s come on out; tt's Lime for an unbridled protest! Or is tL .. ? I'll leave it for you to decide. for it seems that m~r (the band) is coming to town. You can't quote me on their opinion on .. Opcrdllon Iraq• Freedom.'' but I can tell you that t.hc.:y'rc a quality band. and you get a d~)ublc shot of them at the Rum's Bend Tavern in Annapolis. Be there 10 dcmon!>trale. or just take in the tunes at 7 and 9:30. 11\.1*

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Special Guest Appearance

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word!. of \\1 dom or you. but unfortu­nntcly I cannot gl~C them to you becnusc the computer I am usmg at the UMB Heath and Humun Services I ibrnry wall not let me upload them unto the server So, while !.hal mellbs nothmg to nlQ~t of you Jt means a lot to me because tL lrrttaled me enough to write t new column.

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Ehrhch's lllllt! campu VISit and was thoroughlv dts usted. The ~ y that ~crt:un people were all srrules and

lap"- on I he t)ack w tlh th1s mnn alter the h rnhlc mc. !> th.u our budget 1s in. tluat ur <>tal 1s 10 made me feel s1ck Y uh, hrlu.ob 1 a hometown boy oh yeah he urc ha made tt good. made somethmg of h1msclf. but \\hat about us" Whut about rul the students m the stutc of Mar) land that JUSt had to pay $100 $300 dollars more because the Free Stall; rs hrokc'' We are the ones who ended up losmg.

Standrng there, holding my sign, lctung. my silence ~tpeak mstead of my vor~.;c. I feel hke for the first time I am di"nng something I run bcmg actiVe. I am domg smncthmg to make a difTcr­cncc, anstead of pa~1vcly Sitting on my cour.:h at home watclung the nc\\s and c:omplatntng about how everything suck~ We went out, ra1scd our stgns. nod he saY. u:; Ehrltch saw us and saw 1hnr e\en though he'" Mr. Hometown that d1d not mean that we would not let our fcchogs be known.

It was wonderful. it was u\toxicat­ang. I am powerful

I m JU!il a wee Irish lass, with green eyes •• md red tuur and l'm so tiny. I'm so cure. don't you want to just pmch my whiule·biuy cheeks, how could I posstbl~ do anything to rock the world? To that r say. "Wait and sec.'' I am learning. lam growing. Tam stretching my mind. Knowledge ts a very powerful tool

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the hme th t you all nrc supposed to enter :u d enncb m lafc And you all arc I love I h,, c 111 Qf ) ou So many mcmonc have been m tdc , m.tny fncndships thltl I do not want to let hp a\\ ay b"'cau:.c you arc too nnpor

tam to me. )ou koo\\ who you are I know

) ou do. hut 1f you don 1 then cnmc Hnd ask meand I wtll 1 II I "-til tell you all cvcrythUlg that ts stlting mstdc of me right now. but just not hc1'C There's not enough room to wrnc down t.·vcry­thing that IS tn my heart So 11 rs wail ing for you.

*ahem That was my allergtcs ucllng up.

Right.., Right Have I tolt.l you all that Baby

Smutf has been born" Well he has, on EasLer, an fact I wrote a song ror the occas1on lt goes hke th1S BABY SMUFF HAS BEEN BORN' BABY SMUFF HAS BEEN BORN 1" That is all 1l 1S only tW1> hncli long but you smg them over and over throughout rbc day, so tl seems longer I like the song, it is a good song. as as the .. Bueno" song. Both should he sung m the key of G. for JG Baby Smuft WJll be C(lnt·

ing home in June. I thmk. Late June. Hooray! Hooray!

Jema Gib.son b vour Features Editor for this a"d on~ more tss11e. She is sooo crazy/ EmtJII her at jg @trW.umbc.edu.

Courtesy Ill Cnhnnh13 PIC:tu~'

Hands Up: John Cusack and Ray Liotta star in tl:lis scary mysteiy.

Identify the Murderer' HEATHER OSTROVE Retnerer Weeklv SraffWritcr ----

It ~ms that ever ~ince the "Sixth S<.'nsc .. delivered :.uch a swprisc cuding lhal C\Cl)

othcr.surpri....e-cnding movie has tricxlto foll<J\\ in iLo; fooNcps. Rarely do thc.-.c movi~.-s do as well a job bc..""Cau.'>e the ending.' seem ob\ taus or a last effort to keep the viewer involved. HO\VC\er. ··Identity" is one of those rare mo\·ies that sucx."CC<.l.., in giving the viewer SCID) momenl'i and a really unseen ending.

"Identity" is n:ally two scpar.uc ., to­rics. which at one poim will connect. each taking place on the eve of a stoml. ·r he lirst ~tory is one of a late night court hearing in which a convicLed killer's auorncys arc try­ing to get his conviction ovcnumcd less the client will be put to death.

The second storyline is set in a lonely, Nonuan-Bates ~lyle. motel. TI1c road' are llooded. the phone line:; are down w1d ten peo­ple come to st.ay for shelter. 1ncsc ~n people include a limo drher. John Cusack. an actres:.. Relll..'c(.<t De Momay. a polu .. -e ntliccr. Ray Liotta. a convicted prisoner, Jak-e Busey. a for­mer pi'O!;titu~. Amanda R-et. a fwnily of three. John C. McGinley. Leila Kenzie, WJd Brut Loehr. and young nL'wly weds. William Lee Sl'Olt and Ctea DuVall.

Once it seems that all of these str.tnded guests have settled in. they start dying one by one. Each death taken by itself doesn't s.:cm to make sense. One could have been an accident. another is definitely murder. However, when put together at tl1e end, each is explained per­fectly, and all of these guest£ who thought U1cy had nothing in common actually did.

John Cusack gives a great performance in this. movie. His character is the leader, and therefore he had to come across a'> being con-

fused, ~mart. strOng. \\cak. conflicted and togt.'lhcr all aL tlk: same time: aU \\ hich ~ dtd wonderfully.

Ray Liotta has made a~ of pla)ing !loth good and bad l,.'ll) s. In thi' llKWIC one can never he sure. till the end and that i<; not a hint. whtch of !hose two .he is playing. However. the rc:1~un one can OC\Cf be !>Ure b h1s abrlity to make lhc two appear to be one in t11e same.

Thi!. movie was directed by James Mangold, who also doubled a.'> the :\CrCCn­writcr. Mangold's credits mcludl: '"Kate and U'OJX>ld.'' .. Girl lntem.~ptcJ." .. Cop Land" and "The YarJs.'' 111is being Mangold's first mur­der-mystery doesn't seem to hurt the mo\ic at all. In lltcl. it might hav~ helped. hec<tusc thts nmvic doesn't rely on special effect:; or camcrn angles to be creepy. the plot allows the movie lo be creepy on it'i own.

The only problem" ith thiS movie i'that it b a little ~tow. The movie is only an hour and a half ll)ng. so it 1s <;hort enough that it being a liulc stow doesn't hurt the picture. However. rfthc mo~·ic had been an) longer tt could have really been a problem. One 'hould remember that even the "Si:o:th Sense.'' which had the ultimate ... urprise end­ing, was a liulc slow at time.'>.

'"Identity" is Nar a movie thai will k~p you gucssmg; in:;tead it will keep you wondcnng until the \ery disturbing end. This is really a great movie because the plot is simple enough th<1t one doe~n't hav<.· to do brain :,urgery to understand the ending and <.'omplicatcd enough that the surprise ending really is u surprise.

MY BO'ITOM LINE: Would I wait in line to St..'C it? YES (if it were a !ihot1 one). Evening, Matinee. Wail until video or R>rgct it wao; produced? EVENING. How muny ti~ did 1 check my watch? 0. Rent or buy"? RENT.

by Adam Corpora

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Men's Tennis Captures Conference Title, NCAA Bid

File Photn

Big Finish: Joseph Novotny ends the season on an eight game winning streak.

JOHN FRANCE Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff

The Fairleigh Dickinson Knights rode into the NEC tourna­ment in second place with an impressive nine game winning streak under their belt. FDU put away the Monmouth Haw~ in the quarterfinals 4-0. and advan~cd into the semif:mals to dispose of the Rob..:rt Morris Coloniab. 4-l. However in the Litle round. history repeated iLSelf

with UMBC successfully defend· ing their Cf0\\11 with a 4-0 victory. The Retrievers now receive an automatic bid lO compete in the NCAA tournament. and will play in the opening round on Saturday, May 10.

The win marks the Retrievers' fourth consecutive NEC title. u~mc has not dropped a smgle set in the past four tournament~. Next fall. the tennis squad will move into the competitive America East conference. and hopefully

bring their winning legacy along with them. "It's alway<> great when you c:m leave on top." said fresh­man Mike Keller.

UM BC ),hutoul all three of ill. compclllors, en route to captUiing Lhe title. The ctghth-rankcJ Wagner Seahawks were U~fBC'c; victims in the quartertinals and the fourth-ranked Quinmpiac BobcaL-; went up again~t UMBC in the semi finals.

Against the Knights. UMBC junior ~fikhail Kouznet!-ov defeated Daniel Wynne. 6-2 and 6-0. Junior Luis Baraldi downed Angel Rubio. 6·4 and 6-1 . Freshman Djan Gu~mao tripped up Rodri!!O Avila, 6-1 and 6-2.

Junior Joseph Novotny proved to be a key contributor for the Retrievers during the tourna­ment ~ he won his etghth straight match against Bobcat Justin Wortl1y with scores of 6-2 and 6· 2.

Freshman James Tyler clo~>ed out the regular season by being named NEC Player of the Week. making him the third consecutive Retriever to receive that honor in the spring. Tyler earned Lhe award from a 3-0 performance in rhc number three singles spoL

Now. the Dawg~ will prepare for the NCAA tournament. "We arc the under-dogs coming in," Keller said. ~we have nothing to lo~e and all to gain."

WolDen's Tennis Defeats Quinnipiac to Retain NEC Title

KATHLEEN JACKSON Retriever Weeki)• Se11ior Writer

The \~omen's lenni~ team bid farewell to the NEC in srylc as they snatched up their fifth con­secuthe conference Litle dcfeuting Quinnip•ac 4-0 on Sunday in the tournament finals. On their trip to the winner's circle the Lady Retrievers bested the number eight Fairleigh Dickin.;on Knights 4-0 in the quarterfinals and the number four Monmouth Hawks 4-0 in the semifinal<>. The number two-seeded Bohcats knocked out the numher seven St. Francis (PA) Red Flash in the quanerfinals. and the number three-ranked Long Island Blackbirds in the semifi ­nals. in Lheir opposing bracket.

In the tiUe malch. junior Tia

Kaasalainen bested senior Crislin Arahovitcs. 6-3 and 6-4. Freshman Ale Pcdergnana defeated junior Heather Rahrn, 6-1 and 6-0. Sophomore Aimee Lim tripped up sophomore KaU1erine Ehle, 6-2 and 6-1. Senior Anita Pushpanathan aml sophomore Lana Khvalina completed the Retriever shutout in doubles action. besting Arachovite~ and freshman Tina Hoang, S-3 .

Highlights from the Monmouth bout come !'rom Khvahna who dispatched her Hawk foe 6-0 in both sets. For the week ending April 8, Kbvalina took home Player of the Week honors.

In the Fairleigh Dickinson

see RETAIN. page 29

File: Phl)lc• Conference Queens: Tia Kaasalainen and the women's tennis squad capture five straight championships.

Softball on 11 game winning streak 31 Women's lacrosse back in first place 29

Track competes in Penn State lnvitational31

This Week in Sports Baseball

April 29 Long Island University al Alumni Field 3 p.m. A long -.eason i-. winding down. but the baseball team has a week full of NEC opponents to get through. UMBC 1s st.-cond in the NEC with a record of 10-5. They play Long Island for the second llme this year. having alread) beaten the Bla~kbinh twice. Lll has trugglcd nil year. and are mnth w1tb a NEC record of 6-9.

April 30 Mt. St. Mary's ~•t Alumni Field 3 p.m. UMBC"s local NEC foe 1s in town for a mid-week game. The Mount stands seventh m lltc league. With a confcren\:c mark of 7-8. Only the top four teams make 11 to the conference touma mcnt, so MSM looks out. while UMBC look)) in.

May 34 at Quinnipiac 12 p.m. UMBC beads north for a weekend series with the Bobcat-;. Ju.,t hkc the two opponent<; thts week. Quinmpiac has sLruggled to a sixth place standing and n record of 8-9.

May S SL Francis (NY) at Alumni Field 3 p.m. A long week, which has se<m two home games. a lrip to Ccmnccticut and a trip home, wraps up with St. Francis (NY). The New Yorkers arc third an the NEC and arc two games back from the Retrievers. This game could help determine sec-ding for the NEC Tournament.

Men's Lacrosse April 30 at Ohio State University TBA This game is a make up from an earlier date. The Retncvers look to get back into their winning ways against the Buckeyes in the1r last game of the season. Ohto St. is relatively new to the lacrosse ranlcings. but ha\c had a solid season. Despite this, there proba­bly will not be 50.000+ at the game, Like there arc at football games. This IS a must win game for UMBC as they are fighting for an at large NCAA tournament bid.

Women's Lacrosse May 2-4 NEC Tournament at Fairfield Connecticut A long season has come to this. An NCAA bid 1s at stal-e .as tlte top four regular season teams battle it out over the weekend UMBC has won five of the six NEC Tournaments ever held. Monmouth, who beat UMBC earher this year, won the other

Softball April 30 at Drexel University 3 p.m. The regular season tS winding down for UMBC :c.oftball. They are on an ll game wmning strea.l<. and that will be on tlte hnc .against Drexel in an early week game. The Retrievers have a 30· 17 O'llernlJ record this season, to date.

May 2 Long Island UnMrsity at tbe UMBC Softball Field 2 p.m. Long Island is first in the NEC, with a record of 13-1. U~mc is only one game behind them, at 12-2, and hope to even things up today. The Blackbirds have been especially bot lately and have won five stra1ght.

May 4 Monmouth at the UMBC Softball Field 12 p.m. Monmouth is the last NEC regulnr season game for the Retrievers. The New Jersey side is currently thsrd Ill the NEC. three games behind UMBC. Their record JS 9-5 on the year, and they will look to gain a little ground on 12-2 UMBC. Both teams look to he solidly into the NEC Tournament, where the top four squad" qualify.

Track May 3-4 NEC Champion.4lhips at UMBC Track UMBC hosts the NEC Championships thii> yenr. The team hao; had a successful spring campaign, and they look to cement that With an NEC crown. Supcnnan Hcugens Jean will look to con­tinue an tmpressive run m the htgh jump. He recently won that evant at the Penn .Relays.

April 29, 2003 TilE I~ETl~IE\TJ~ W' rEKI.Y SPORTS Page 29

Women's Lacrosse Closes Season With 20-4 Thrashing of LIU Allen, Stringer and Traber Honored on Senior Day, UMBC holds LIU to One Goal in First Half

NICK CHREST Relrie\'t•r l\et'kly Editorial Srujf

After losing 5-7 to Monmouth early m the NEC <>eason. many observer~ felt that mayhc lhc lThffiC team was not going Lo win lhc l\'EC for only the second time ever. All lhc Retrievers did to answer that challenge wa-. lo close out conference compcution with ~i;.; sU'<tight wins. l~Ut!>Coring all oorner.i 107-37. 1lJc last victi.rn. Long bland Univer.:oity. came on Retriever Senior D-.1.> with a score of204.

Stephanie Allen. Lauren Tnilier and goal­keeper Courtney Stringer, all captaim;. ch..cd out lheir tim~; in front of r.h~ lJ1\.1BC failhful in gr.uKI fa;;hion. Allen scored fi\c times, Tmbcr three times and Stringer only allov.-ed four goat.-;. as the Blackbird.c; were never really in the game. Ju.<.t 15 minutes in. the score wa'i 8-0 and U~lBC wa!' on iL'> way loa 7-1 confer­ence record.

Junior Lauren Hess opened the scoring. just one minute m .. off of a pretty feed from Allen. Once the UU net wa., breached, the flood started. Freshman Kelly Fiorani and sophomore Stephanie Crouch each scored once while Allen scored three of her goals and Traber added one to give the Retrievers lhcir eight goal advan~.ar,oe.. The team then took a seven minute break.. allowing lhc Blackbirds' Nichole Lopez to score !he only flrst.balf LIU goal, before picking up three more 1.0 close an

Christina Hun I Retrw\~r Weekly ~tJif Go for It: Jen Dragoni and the women's lacrosse team end the regular season on a four game winning streak.

Il-l half. Allen. Traber. and Hcs.<i were the goal scorers.

After the break. me Retriever dominance continued. and they changed up their lineup a little bit to get everyone involved. Just 20 sec­onds in1.0 the half. sophomore Annie Davis ~"'red her lil'$t of the day. She w-.as follov.-ed up by quick slrikes from junior Jen Dragoni. freshman Jennifer Kasper and Allen before UU could bmak the llow and score their sec­ond on the day. UMBC then got back 1.0 busi-

ness and went on a four goal run before allow­ing lhc Blackbirds to ocoee two of the final three goalc;. The final bu7.z~-r marked the end of a tough day for an UU team that., despite the ~re. had played with a IOl of heart. UU bare­ly has enough players to field a team.

The other second half tallies came from Fiorani, twice, Traber, and Dragoni. Sophomore Julie Libertini scored with about ren minutes left to round out the Retriever our­put. her first of me seao;on.

A scary moment came with about four minutes to pia) when sophomore Tr.1eie McClintic went dO\\TI with an injwy and had to be helped otT of the lield. She would not return to action. McClintic htt!. played very good dctcnsc lor UMBC this season.

Earlier in the -weekend. on Friday, UMBC di$patchcd .1 hot Sacred Heart Univer.:oity team 15:-&. Once ~gain. U!\-ffiC got off to a great start. scoring the game ·s fil'$t seven goals. Dragoni anti freshman K.ttc Worthington each scored twkc in the opening salvo. UMBCcon­trollcd the rest of the half. allowing only tv.o Pioneer goals, and led 10-2. In the second half. SHU tried to spark a comcha<:~ but were never really able t1.1 get clo:.c to Lhe Rcuicvcr-.. Dragoni nett~.!{) two more goals. to gi\c her the team high. Wltlt four. F1011mi and Worthington each ended the day with three. Traber and Kasper chipped in two apiece while AIJcn closed scoring with one goal. Allen remains in the top Jive nationally in draw controb per game.

May I is the Stan of th~ l\'EC Tournament, and the Retrie\er.; will run it back against thb Sacred Heart team. The winner here will mow on to face the winner of Monmouth vs. Wagner. E\"CC)'one expcclli lhal U~1BC will play arch ri\'al Monmouth in the finaJ. with an NCAA Thurnament bid at stake. Next year. UMBC will be relocating to the America E<L'>t

Conference. So the big quc.•nion is; will the Lady Retrievers end their NEC run on top?

Tennis Ladies Go Out on Top, Cinch NCAA Bid

Jean Continues to Dominate High Jump Division

from RETAIN. page 28

encounter. Pcc.Jcrgnana Look care of S(!njor Mwa Puga with scores of 6-0 and 6-1. For the week ending l\larch 18. Pedergnana earned Player of the Week honors.

Sunday's finals mark the forth-conscc­ullve )C'ar thal UMBC and Quinnipiac ha~oe been in contention for the NEC title. UMBC. Quinmpiac. and LlU for the lh•rd consecutive year were initiall) seeded and finished in the one-two-three :;pots in the toumamem. In the last four NEC tinal

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competir.ions the Dawgs have annihilated the Bobcat's 4-0 to maintain their title. The 4-0 win in the finals seab the deal on the third year in a row that UMBC bas gone without dropping a match in the NEC tour­nament; all of this sending a message to the Retriever"s new home, the America East Conference, that they arc ready to compete.

The tournament victory cams UMBC a uip to the firsl round of the NCAA regionals scheduled to take place on Friday. May 9.

see TRACK. page 29 competition with a jump of 2.14-metcrs and second place in the triple jump at 14.35-meten.. Sophomore Jesse Stump came in first place with a time of 3:58.83 in the 1600-meters. Junior Adam Driscoll also placed first in the 3,000-meters in 15:05.30. In rbe pole vault competition Dixon placed first with a jump of 4.40-meters. And in the 4 x 800-mctcr relay lJMBC came out on lop once again in a timely 8:07.96.

The Lady Retrievcf!' did not fare as y,·ell. placing fourth overall. The two first place finishers were freshman Stefanic Thomas and sophomore Anita Lawver. Thomas had the best time of 10:28.04 in lhe 3,000-meter race. Lawver pole-,·aulted 2.90-meters to win her competition.

Next up for the Retrievers is the NEC championships May 3 and 4. UMBC will be playing host ar UMBC Stadium.

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Current Women's lacrosse Standings as of 4/25/03: Conference Wrap Up: Conference Overall

Junior Jen Dragoni has scored in WIOS losses draws WinS losses draws streak

every game since UMBC's season

1. UMBC 6 1 0 7 8 0 W3 opener. Senior Tracey Uellendah of

Monmouth 6 1 0 7 8 0 W2 Central Conn. leads the nation in

3. Sacred Heart 5 2 0 10 5 0 L1 both scoring (5.86 ppg) and goals

Wagner 5 2 0 7 8 0 W2 (4.57 gpgl according to the latest

5. Mt. St. Mary's 4 3 0 7 9 0 W4 NCAA stats. Sacred Heart, who will

6. Ownntpiac 3 4 0 7 7 0 W1 host the NEC tournament for the first

7. Long Island 2 5 0 2 8 0 L3 time In history, was knocked down to

8. Central Conn. 1 6 0 4 7 0 L1 third place after a weekend loss to UMBC. If Monmouth does not to lose another NEC contest. they will finish the regular season in first place for the second time in NEC history.

Current Men's Lacrosse Standings as of 4/24/03: j Conference Wrap Up: Conference Overall For the week ending 4/21, senior

wms losses draws wms losses draws streak Grey Coklin of Navy took home

Georgetown 0 10 0 W2 ECAC Offensive Player of the Week

1 4 1 1 honors for scoring a career high 2 Mass 3 1 0 12 1 0 W5 five goals in the win over UMBC. 3 Penn State 3 2 0 6 6 0 L1 marking the team's first ECAC win .:t Rutgers 2 2 0 9 4 0 L1 of the season. Senior Chris Garrity 5. Navy 1 4 0 6 7 0 W1 of Penn State took home ECAC 6. UMBC 1 4 0 7 5 0 L1 Defensive Player of the Week for

making 14 saves in the upset over Rutgers. Freshman Sean Morris of Mass. took home ECAC Rookie of the Week honors for scoring a career high four points in the win over Georgetown.

Current Softball Standings as of 4/24/03: Conference Wrap Up: Conference Overall Junior Lauren Hebb set a new

wms losses draws WinS losses draws wea~ single season record for home-

1 Long Island 13 1 0 20 17 0 W5 runs as did freshman Kali Byers of Robert Morris. For the week

2. UMBC 12 2 0 30 17 0 W11 ending 4/21. freshman Lauren 3 . Monmouth 9 5 0 13 19 0 L2 Nicholson took home her second 4. Outnmpiac 10 7 0 28 13 0 W2 NEC Pitcher of the Week honor

St.Francis (PA) 10 7 0 13 26 0 W2 for going 3-0 with a 0.44 ERA. 6. Wagner 7 8 1 11 25 1 L2 Senior Sarah Collins of 7 Mt St Mary's 4 6 0 9 17 l L3 Ouinnipiac took home NEC Player 8. Central Conn. 6 10 0 10 2£ 0 L4 of the Week for batting .538.

Freshman Alissa Villanueva of Long Island took home NEC Rookie of the Week for batting .421.

Current Baseball Standings as of 4/25/03: Conference Wrap Up: Conference Overall

WinS losses dr.:~ws WinS losses draws streak For the week ending 4/21, sopho-more Mike Orlando took home NEC

1 Central Conn 11 5 0 19 11 2 W2 Player of the Week honors for bat-2. UMBC 10 5 0 13 17 0 L2 ting .444 equaling nine RBis. four 3. St. f(anc•s !NY) 8 7 0 12 14 1 L2 doubles and two home runs. Junior 4. Fa~rlergh Dick1nson 9 8 0 10 17 0 LJ Joe Wilson took home NEC Pitcher 5. Monmouth 8 8 0 13 22 0 W2 of the Week for winning his third &. OUinntprac 8 9 0 11 19 1 L1 straight outing. Freshman Joseph 7. Mt. St. Mary's 7 8 0 12 17 0 W2 Kotula of the Mount took home 8 Sacred Heart 7 10 0 12 21 0 W3 NEC Rookie of the Week for batting . . 474 equaling nine hits. Monmouth

head coach Dean Ehehalt reached the 250 win milestone last week. He is in his tenth year with Monmouth.

Mother Nature Creates Havoc from SPLITS, page 3 I

hitter Chrh Becraft on first, sophomore outlieldcr Mike Orlando reached on nn error. nnd Saflron scored. unearned.

The Retrievers big win in game one only ~ccmcd to inspire the Blue Devils to work harder in the nightcap. Central Connecticut came right hack wath a 6-2 victory over UMBC. The Blue Devils roughed up sophomore right-hander Eric Butkh:wicz in five rough innings.

Conncctkut's BaH) llertzcl prevented the Retrievers from helping Butkiewicz out on the offcn.,ivc end, holdang the Dawg!' to only three hat' in hi' complet~: game win.

"Plain and simple. I mean they art· a good team. but they hit the ball and we didn't,'' !'aid senior catcher Scott Ko.smicky. Kosmicky was walked twice by Henzel.

Butkiewicz struck out four and was

churgctl wath I~ hits and the loss. Sophomore Man Farina pitched tw~ mnings of relief. allowing only one hit. but the damage \\8~ done.

1 he Retriever bullpen has grown increasingly comnst~·n1 throughout the .season. with jun10r nghl handcr Mike JohnS11n pitched his first collegiate shUl out over Towson University on Tue~day <which was al!>o hh first collegiate l'Olll­

plctc game).

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Who's Hot Lauren Hebb of softball for setting a new UMBC single season home run record with 12 during game two in the Mount St. Mary's series.

Who's Not The designer of the new basr ketball court floor inside the RAC for having the NEC logo painted on it.

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Sadowl Wins · 14th Game of Year

from CAPTURES, page 31

In the same innmg. sophomore Lnm Se:.unon hit her first curccr hon1e run. Junior Kristin Dulay. the rC'Iicl patchcr, unpmvcd to 4-5 in the season With lhc win.

.. l thought with Dulay coming in and shuning the door down at the cml was big hccause Dulay ha<tn't pitched since ~he got hun three weeks ago.'' f-rench st~ttetl.

In game two, the Retrievers :-.quccz.cd out ~~4-3 win. It came down to the bottom of the seventh v. hen the Mountaincenhortstop, junior Eileen William.~. Jumbled catching ~c.:nior co-captam Ahhic. Kahn'!. line drive allowing Boone t•> score .

In the top of the third, sophomore Kristic Pickeral nwdc an una-,sistcd douhle pl:t) to hold the coniC..'>l scorelc.\s, Rase..' loa<.lcd, Pickeral ~ul:ccs~fully llcldi.!d the hall and lagged lllc im:nming runner to third. then touched the bag before. the lcat.loff run­ncr could get back to at Fre~hm,m pitcher Amy Sad•1WI p1ckcd up her 14th career' win.

The victory hrnught the R~o:tricvcrl> • winning streak to II and their conference record to I ':!-2, putting them right behind first place Long Island m the strmdings. The Mount"-: conference rec(lrd dropped to 4-6. placmg them in seventh place and on a three ~am" lllsing $lrcak.

f•rench credatcd the Moun1.1inccr:,' pcr­fonn:Uicc to. ''the han! pitching todny:· He al.ldcd, ''we're the defending champs. Everyone gets up ft.rr us:·

April 29, 2003 TilE RJ:T~tt:\ ' EI.: ~7EEKI.Y SPORTS Page 31

Track and Field Competes in the Penn State Relays AMITCHAND

Retnever n't!t".k/y StaffWriter

The annual Penn Relays i~ a prcsti~ gious tradition in outdoor track and ticld. For three days each spring. the hcst (.lf the bc..,L travel to Penn Suuc to slmw their ~tuff lm the track or m the field . Thb year. UMBC sc01or J lugucns Jean. proved himscll a worthy con­tender. clatminng victory in the h1gh jump \\ ith a leap o f 7' 0.5".

"I felt very good," Jean said. ' 'I wanted to gl·t htghcr. I tried not to listen to the cro\\d. I kept myself focused on the outcome. I can' t believe I won the Penn Relay~. \\hen I wus a lre:;hman I dtdn't come here bec.1u:;c I didn ' t quala fy. I won the IC4As (indoors), but a-" far .1s the ntmosphcrc and crowd and cwry­thing, this is my biggest win e\'er."

improvements [this season]". remarked UJ\-1BC coach Murray Dn\ is. Dixon wa:, recently named the NEC track and field Rookte of the Week. Dave Bollinger. representing the Niuany Lions. had an out~tanding

jump of 16.0.75" to lead the pack hy a comfortable margin.

In actton Iuter that Fnday. the Retric\cr men', team placed s1Xth in the 4x400-meter relay. Their ttme of 3 :20.05 was £Ood enough to pur them ahead of Wheaton, lthan1 and Methodist. The winner was the Unhcnity of Maryland. Ea ... tcrn Shore, with a time of 3: 15.55. besting the eight oth~·r schools.

The Lady Rcltie,crs started things off for the UMBC runners on Thursday in the 4~400-metcr relay. With a time of 4:03.08. UMBC came 10 last place out uf the tield of eight. Nonh Carolina A&T carne in nrst p lace with a time of 3:46.03.

Saturday SS\\ the Rctnevers C(lm­

petc Ill three events. The women fin­ished !>eventh in the 4 x ROO -meter relay out of a field of fourtecn in the first of L '" o heal!;. with a time ol 9:02.31. At 8:51.81 , Buffalo came in first place. followed by Columb1a and Indiana. In th..: second heat George Mason won with a slower time of 8:59.00.

Coune:>y of the Penn Relays Ptloto Galler) The Best of the Best?: Senior Huguens Jean claimed another huge high jump vic­tory, this time winning Penn Relays. Do we smell a national champion?

In Friday·~ action, frc:.hman pole vaulter Nathan Dixon jumped 15.1'', good enough to earn founh place out of 18. "[Dixon] has made some big

Also on Saturday. the men competed in lhe 4 x 800-meter relay. The Retrievers time of 7:39.21 was good enough for a placement of twelve out of nineteen in heat one. The top team wa~

Softball Captures 11th Straight in Series Verses Mount St. Mary's

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The captain: Lisa Boone commands the infield at lhe shortstop position.

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It was an uphill hattie for Joe French's Lady Rcuievcn; all afternoon. The trouble started in the top of the lirst with Mountaineer fre~hman Danyale Goode driv­ing tht' ball out of the park for a three run homer. A' leadolf hitter junior Lauren Hchb stepped up to !he plate in !he bottom ol the sixth, u~mc was down two and in need of <1

big play. Hcbb deli\\: red. hilling her II tb home run of the !'Cason. That mark tied the lcllln's single ~1son home run rcconJ. a record which Hebb '' ouh.l later hr~ in game two of the scrie~ wilh a two run home run in !he lxlttorn of the third.

Hebb 'shit ~cnt junior Sarah Crowell and freshman Donnell Sousley home as well, giv-

ing tJtc Rctrie~crs an 8-7 lead whtch they would hold unto for the NEC VtCWf)'.

"She'!- just come out big for us all year,'' commented French. 'The Ltlp uf my c>rder. one through seven. they're all .JOO hitters and Hebb just keep~ gelling htg h11 alter big hit and I don't think people think ~he can drive the ball like that She'' an aU-American anll we brought her in to do !he job and '>he has."

Thl'\ thard inning hclongoo to senior co­captain Lisa Boone who commanded the inlield at Lhe shortstop position by having a hand in all three oul\. The lirst came from Boone intercepting an infield hit and making a successful throw to first bru.c. B<Xmc then caught !he.: next batter's pop fly and sent !he baU to thtrd bcfore the runner could get back. for the linal out.

see CAPTURES, page 30

the Tar Heels wirn a time of 7:28.82. Rounding uut the top three were William & Mary and Oklahoma State. In heat two, Fordham was number one at 7:37.46.

In last week's actton, the UMBC men won the Morgan State Invitational. Jean came in first pl.tcc tn the hlgh jump

see TRACK. page 29

Baseball Splits Series with Conference Champs

BRETT MCKENZIE Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff

The latest buzz out of Alumni Field i'> that. after a brief slump. UMac·~ ace lefty Joe Wilson is back to his old self. The truth well may be that the ''new'' Joe Wilson is even better.

Wilson pitched a complete game vic­tory O\'er the Retriever~· number-one conference rival. Central Connecticut State, in game one of Sunday's doubleheader. Wilson. who improves lo 4-5 on the season. struck out seven batters in seven inning ... en route to the 4-3 \'ictory ovl.!r the Blue Dcvih.

''Joe had a solid pitching performance." fellow pitcher Mike Keller said. "It'~ exactly what )'llU c."<pt.>et when he b on the mound. He has some great stuff and he b consistanl every Lime:·

Despite Wilson's impressive performance on the mound, the Dawgs were down J-0 in the bot­tom of the sixth. h was then time for the Retrievers' hitters to come up wilh some imprcsMw performance~ of their own.

They delivered.

Freshman first basem<in baac Friedel then cracked out the ftrst home run of his col­lcgtate career, tying the score at 3-3 going into the seventh inning.

Wilson's nawlcs~ defense prevented the Blue Devils from <;coring again. ln the bottom of the se\·cnth. With pinch runner Juck Saffron on second and designatcu

.H'e SPLITS. page 30

Thtrd baseman Brad Glascock doubled to left center. driving in s hort stop Dan Carpenter to score UMBC's first run.

J.:an Oougho:ny I R~lt11!~cr Weekly S1a11 Swing away: Jake Bennot and the baseball team ready for the tournament.

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Rain, Field Conditions Hurt Men's Lacrosse Against Terps

O:md Landgren I R.:tne~<-er Wully Sta.tT Stick it good: Freshman attacker Brendan Mundorf (13) is second on the team in goals with 21.

ANDREW CHANEY Rerrie-.•t'r Weekly Editorial Staff

The 13th ranked UMBC men':> lacros<;c team seemed to have an anl.wcr for the fifth-ranked Tcrp:. this year as they buill a 3- J lead early on in the game at Byrd Stadium. But, Maryland finally

woke up and scored goal afwr goal lO take a 15-8 victory over the Retriever:.. The tor­rential downpour along with the lield being a sloppy mess made for a spectacu­lar event for those ,.,.·ho hraved the cle­ments.

Early on in the game UMBC had the offensive line trying to get by the stiff

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The second frame turned out to be the same story as the Retrievers missed many scoring chances which allowed Marylant.l to capitalize. On eight third quarter turnovers by U~tBC the Terrapins mn it down the field und set up some nice play!. for goab. Senior Josh Gerber was a bright :;pot for the Retrievers when he Jet hil> shot go for a goal. Then sophomore Phil Grillo deposited a baH into the cage to cut the deficit to 9-5 early in the fourth quaner. Maryland proved Lo be roo strong as lhey :;cored six more goals and would eventual­ly go on lO win the game by a score of 15-8. "A:. a team we want to forget about this lol's." stated sophomore Rob Cross.

Gerhcr led UMBC with three goal~ and now goes mto the his tory books with

28 goals for a season. The only other time a player scored more wa~ \\hen UMBC had two players score n10rc than 30 during the 1999 sea~on. Looking past the score, senior Tim Flanagan had a very solid game in the net t.lcnying 15 .~hots. Flanagan continue), to be the hackhonc of this team with Ius stellar goaltending between the pipes. He came. up big in the win ver..us North Carolin3 from the ACC and now he posted anoth· er :-.olid game against Maryland Grillo was the other star ot the game as he scored two goals and auded an assist.

The rain coming down on Friday night made the conte:-.t that much more interesting. When one player wa~ setting up the offense another player was on the ground slipptng through the mud. The field conditions didn' t help either team in what turned out to be one of the best played games of the college season. The Retrievers can look past the loss and turn their season around agaan~t Ohio Stale. "Ohio State is a must wm,"' com­mented Cross.

This game is being rel>chcdulcd from March I. •·we have to beat Ohio State."' stated :.ophomorc Travi:; Tomczak. A v1ctory over Ohio State 1~ the squad's last hope for a trip to the NCAA's.

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